14 May 2013

Take 15: Detecting Asset Bubbles Before They Burst (Video)

Posted In: Economics, Risk Management

Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Yale and author of Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst, discusses five lenses for identifying historical asset bubbles that then burst and provides examples of where his lenses point to a bubble (China) and where they don’t point to a bubble (food prices).

This episode of the Take 15 Series was originally released on 24 April 2013.

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About the Author(s)

Lauren Foster

Lauren Foster was a content director on the professional learning team at CFA Institute and host of the Take 15 Podcast. She is the former managing editor of Enterprising Investor and co-lead of CFA Institute’s Women in Investment Management initiative. Lauren spent nearly a decade on staff at the Financial Times as a reporter and editor based in the New York bureau, followed by freelance writing for Barron’s and the FT. Lauren holds a BA in political science from the University of Cape Town, and an MS in journalism from Columbia University.

2 thoughts on “Take 15: Detecting Asset Bubbles Before They Burst (Video)”

Biharilal Deora CFA says:

14 May 2013 at 02:28

Lauren, this is great, Is there a way you could post the transcript of some of these excellent video’s so that it could be shared

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