Is the Cryptocurrency Bubble More Like Housing or Dotcom?

Two of the most significant bubbles in recent history include the dotcom bubble of the 1990s and the housing bubble of the early 2000s. In some ways, these periods shared characteristics inherent to all bubbles: investor confidence proved to be too high for the underlying market to ultimately support it.
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The easiest way to get insight into the marketplace lending securitization market is through PeerIQ's quarterly reports. It feels like every quarter brings more good news for originators and the fourth quarter of 2017 was no exception. Issuance in the quarter totaled $4.4 billion, which is another record and
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Lynn is responsible for affordable housing loans utilizing KeyBank's partnerships with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), community development lending, tax-exempt private placement bonds, and many other services for KeyBank Real Estate Capital. In the near-term,
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI (January 16, 2018) — Lake Michigan Credit Union (LMCU) is pleased to announce that team member Ashely DeYoung has been promoted to a mortgage loan originator position. DeYoung has been with the LMCU mortgage team for over five years. She began as a mortgage setup
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We don't think that banking in the future will be done via bricks and mortar, and particularly we don't think that customers want to be burdened by the cost structures that come with having branches and also large head offices all over the country. The major benefit that we have is that we were able to
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Hello- I got locked out of my mobile banking APP by incorrectly answering my security question I created years ago. – Let TD Helps show you how you can reach your goals.
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Among the many shiny models vying for attention at Detroit's North American International Auto Show are the revamped Volkswagen Jetta, Hyundai Veloster and Kia Forte. But cars — particularly small ones — are having a tough time getting buyers to look their way as SUVs grow in popularity. Car sales
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According to Fianna Fáil finance spokesman Michael McGrath, the Variable Rate Mortgages Bill, which he proposed in 2016 to give the Central Bank the power to limit interest rates on mortgages, is to be subject to an expert impact assessment. This comes on the back of the Attorney General warning
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16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Integrating homeowner's insurance into the mortgage origination process is a relatively new idea — and one Matic CEO Aaron Schiff anticipates will gain traction in 2018. His firm expects small and mid-sized mortgage operations will follow the lead of several marquee lenders
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“I haven't put it on the market,” said Huang, “and already people are looking for it.” Huang is part of a growing group of Bay Area homeowners taking advantage of changing laws and an intense demand for housing by building small dwellings known as granny flats or in-law units in their backyards,
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During his final days in office, Christie signed more than 100 bills, including measures that boosted pensions for some elected officials and pledged billions of dollars of tax credits if Amazon.com Inc. builds its second headquarters in the state. He also packed New Jersey authorities and boards with his
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Accenture advises banks, Fintechs and other industry players in devising strategies to take advantage of PSD2. Anupam Majumdar and Marcus van Dalen, lead of Accenture's Payments & Open Banking consulting practice in the Netherlands and analyst with Accenture Financial Services respectively,
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On one hand, I like sleuthing and finding paper trails and story leads. Sometimes I get phone calls, sometimes text messages and other times emails from sources telling me about things they knoware happening in the commercial real estate world. That's all part of the day-to-day job of a beat reporter.
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A weak dollar has fueled a superb rally in blue chip companies, which derive most of their revenues from international markets. Notably, the Dow Jones climbed 25% last year, marking the best annual performance since 2013. It breached the 20,000-mark on Jan 6, 2017 and moved up 5,000-points last
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It's the beginning of a new year, so there's no better time to start to refresh your home's design.
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The first mortgage default rate rose from 0.66 percent in November to 0.68 percent in December; in December 2016, the rate was 0.71 percent. The second mortgage default rate rose from 1.08 percent in November to 1.22 percent in December; the rate was 0.41 percent in December 2016.
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ABU DHABI, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) — The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) sheikhdom of Sharjah unveiled on Tuesday three ground-breaking projects worth 2.7 billion dirhams (735 million U.S. dollars). The residential, hospitality and commercial real estate projects are named Maryam Island, Kalba Waterfront
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House price growth is soaring in the Midlands, while the market in London continues to decline, according to official data. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in the year to the end November the average property price in the West Midlands went up by 7.2 per cent, followed
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Crews battle a fire on theDeepwater Horizon rig on April 21, 2010. Photographer: U.S. Coast Guard/Getty Images North America. BP shares fell the most among European energy companies after announcing a charge of about $1.7 billion as part of the Deepwater Horizon disaster's class-action
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Greater Cincinnati payments processor Vantiv Inc. has completed its acquisition of a British-based company in a deal that should move it onto the vaunted Fortune 500 list. Symmes Township-based Vantiv (NYSE: VNTV) acquired London-based Worldpay Group for 8 billion British pounds, which comes
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