- Paperback: 248 pages
- Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd (5 Mar 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857885236
- ISBN-13: 978-1857885231
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 468,071 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Provides a very thoughtful and incisive look at bubbles and busts ...the analysis and content is extremely helpful to understanding the developments over the past few decades and the risks in the current situation. --Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman and Company Inc
Indispensable for everyone, investors and students alike, who wants to understand how bubbles arise -and avoid being caught out by the next one. --Roger Bootle, Founder and Managing Director of Capital Economics and author of Money For Nothing and The Death of Inflation
This is a book written for the general reader striving to understand what is going on in the crazy world at the moment. Policy makers and market participants should also find it interesting ... it is timely, arriving in a period when financial and economic history is being rewritten. Review written by Jim Power, chief economist with Friends First --Sunday Business Post
Indispensable for everyone, investors and students alike, who wants to understand how bubbles arise -and avoid being caught out by the next one. --Roger Bootle, Founder and Managing Director of Capital Economics and author of Money For Nothing and The Death of Inflation
This is a book written for the general reader striving to understand what is going on in the crazy world at the moment. Policy makers and market participants should also find it interesting ... it is timely, arriving in a period when financial and economic history is being rewritten. Review written by Jim Power, chief economist with Friends First --Sunday Business Post
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John Calverley's new book is about understanding what s going on, how policy impinges on it, what investors can do and what is likely to happen. This extremely topical and timely new book from the well known economist and Head of Research, Standard Chartered Bank is the first book to examine in depth the financial fallout of 2008 and explore the implications and solutions for individuals, companies and central banks. His previous book, Bubbles and How to Survive Them predicted the current financial situation. This essential readable, non-technical guide is essential reading for everyone and particularly for investment professionals everywhere. In this new book - an investor's survival kit - he: * Outlines the crises we now face and reviews how we got here. * Looks closely at the huge housing bubbles in UK and the US, as well as those in Australia, Spain, Japan and Hong Kong. * Explores the anatomy of bubbles and presents a checklist for identifying them. * Tells the story of how the housing bubble led to the currrent financial crisis and how far prices might fall, focussing on household debt as the value of household assets collapse. * Examines strategies for investors, who must try to avoid bubbles or, more dangerously, seek them out and ride them. * Reveals what will happen next. In his original book, Bubbles and How to Survive Them John Calverley warned vigorously of the danger from the housing bubble and warned that stock prices might take off again and reach vulnerable levels (as indeed occurred in 2006-7.)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was lucky enough to review John's book as he was writing it and it is great to see the finished article which contributes to our study of bubbles, why they form, and what to do about them. The book is not as doom and gloom as many other studies have been, and John makes a reasoned argument that attempts to establish criteria in order to point out bubbles ahead of time may bear fruit (especially if policy makers can do something about them!). This book should be helpful to any student of market or herd behavior, speculation and finance.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you have an interest in the housing market, in stocks or in the phenomenon of 'bubbles', this book is definitely worth a look. Unlike some of the doomsayers Mr Calverly takes a measured look at the likely consequences of a 'bubble' - it's not all bad, folks! Manages to avoid reading like a textbook, which is always the risk with books about economics.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a must read for property investors or even homeowners.
It's important for us to understand how bubbles arise and how to avoid it. Of course, more importantly, after reading this book, I know better how to spot the right time to invest in a particular property market. Buy low, sell high. An easy investment rule but many fail to follow.
Property prices are so high in the UK and many people quit their job and become property developers. It's the same as the tech bubbles when many of them quit their job doing day trading at home. It definitely gives a clear warning at the current bubbly situation in the UK.
This is a great book! However, for those who have very little understanding of economic terms, this book may not be easy to read.
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Very timeley... in 2010!
Despite being published in 2004, this book could have been published today as essential reading for anyone wanting to know why the financial crisis happened. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2010 by LOTONtech
Good read on bubbles
Good overview of how bubbles develop. Written in an easy to read style with some good ideas for future policy, clearly relating things back to the issues of 08/09. Read more
Published on 17 July 2009 by Shun Yao
Send in the Calverley
This review is of "When Bubbles Burst", the 2009 follow-up to Mr Calverley's original book of 2004. I heard the author on the Today radio programme a few weeks ago and thought he... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2009 by PJW
indispensible for property or stock market investors
Wow! What a refreshingly well-balanced written book by John Calverley a prominent economist who correctly predicted the last housing crash. Read more
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