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What’s behind euro-area housing boom… and is a crash coming?

  “Recent euro-area house price increases are dissimilar to earlier housing booms” By Zsolt Darvas, Marta Domínguez-Jiménez, and Guntram B. Wolf, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute   Rapid house price increases are good for homeowners and bad for people wishing to buy. They could also be bad for the economy as a whole if there […]

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SoftBank’s Gravity Warping Value, Expectations

  Henny Sender in the FT: SoftBank and its $70 billion-in Vision Fund are privately hyperfinancing start-ups, they argue, to spur rapid growth and occasionally to beat their chests.   These well-intended torrents of cash have created a bubble in the tech sector, widening the gap between massive private and modest public valuations.   The […]