Sentence examples for land bubble from inspiring English sources

Morris was ruined after the war, when he guessed wrong about tobacco prices and got involved in a land bubble.

But now something has happened – say, the collapse of a land bubble – that has forced the Sams to stop borrowing, and indeed to pay down their debt.

In a 1932 book, "The Great American Land Bubble," Aaron M. Sakolski offers a vivid history of these manias, going back hundreds of years.

The Florida land bubble of the 1920s provided a turning point in public opinion, thanks to newspaper reporting around the country that made it clear that a mania was being artfully promoted.

During the 1980s, Mr. Hoenig worked in bank supervision and regulation at the Kansas City Fed, where an agricultural crisis and land bubble prompted a string of bank failures.

A looming shortfall in the pension system, combined with the aftermath of Japan's collapsed land bubble, is causing many of them to worry about their own or their parents' retirement.Along with these other anxieties, Japan's voters harbour an intense fear of economic competition—something many of them have never really experienced.

Two such land bubbles stand out.

Even so, both the history of land bubbles and the slowness of shifts in public opinion suggest that such bubbles will be fairly rare.

Adding to the risk, the collateral for many loans is local land valued at lofty prices that could collapse if China's real estate bubble burst.

For farmers who are financially conservative or wary of a land price bubble, renting versus owning likely makes more financial sense.

There have been many highly localized land price bubbles in the United States over the last couple of centuries, although bubbles over large areas have been rather rare.