Sentence examples for its asset bubble from inspiring English sources

It failed to clean up after its asset bubble burst in the early 1990s, preferring to pretend that firms could pay their debts and banks were solvent.

For much of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Western economists and politicians were happy to lecture the Japanese government about the mistakes it made in the aftermath of its asset bubble.

Japan's public debt almost 200% of GDP on a gross basis has risen steadily in the two decades since its asset bubble burst.

China's mercantilist trade policy is another contributor to its asset bubble.

The confidence that success instilled evaporated, however, as recession followed recession after its asset bubble collapsed in 1989.

That's the most despondent Japanese companies have ever been, more depressed even than during the nation's lost decade of economic woe following the collapse of its asset bubble in 1989.

It took about four years for the Japanese economy to hit rock bottom after its spectacular asset bubble burst in 1990, and another four for deflation to take hold in 1998.

According to the report, the UK's 2007 wealth-to-income ratio was "the highest level recorded for any country apart from Japan at the peak of its asset price bubble in the late 1980s".

And it never had an asset bubble of Hong Kong proportions.

Japan's ultra-low interest rate policy was initiated in the 1990s to put a floor under the economy following the bursting of its asset-price bubble.

The first has been hit by bouts of recession ever since its asset-price bubble burst in 1990, while sclerotic Germany has been hobbled by the EU's tough fiscal-policy regime, by rigid labour laws, and by the cost of integrating the former East Germany.