Asset Bubble
An asset bubble is a sustained price boom that becomes difficult to justify with fundamentals. Evaluate valuation, credit, leverage, liquidity, and crash risk.
Bubble and speculative-event terms used in market-cycle, valuation, and financial-stability analysis.
Asset Bubbles and Speculative Events covers valuation booms that affect portfolios, collateral, lending, liquidity, and financial stability.
Use these pages when stress events or crisis labels affect valuation, liquidity, credit quality, funding access, sovereign exposure, or risk management. It sits inside Economic Risk, Crises, and Policy Events, so readers can move up when the broader economics context matters.
Use Asset Bubble for the general concept, including the common labels bubble, market bubble, and speculative bubble. Use Dotcom Bubble when the late-1990s technology-equity episode changes the evidence being analyzed.
| Area | Use it for |
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| Asset Bubble | The canonical guide to bubble terminology, valuation evidence, credit feedback, leverage, historical examples, and diagnostic limits. |
| Dotcom Bubble | The late-1990s technology-stock boom and subsequent repricing, including the distinction between genuine innovation and unsustainable valuation. |
Economic-risk material is educational and does not provide crisis forecasts, trading advice, or individualized risk-management advice.
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An asset bubble is a sustained price boom that becomes difficult to justify with fundamentals. Evaluate valuation, credit, leverage, liquidity, and crash risk.
The dot-com bubble was the late-1990s boom and 2000-2002 collapse in many internet and technology stocks. Learn its causes, valuation signals, and risks.