Word: excessive
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...biggest threat, though, is a crash in the property or stock market. When U.S. property and media tycoon Sam Zell visited India in April, he told local real estate executives that they were "on the brink of excess" and that the boom could end in a bust. Real estate stocks plunged as much as 50% in a general market sell-off last spring, while property prices have fallen 20% or so in some areas in the past six months. Both the government and the Reserve Bank of India are trying to cool the real estate sector without crashing...
...Chinese officials hope he's right, because the country's policy options are limited. A rate hike would likely only increase the flow of speculative "hot money" into the country from abroad, says Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JP Morgan. And excess liquidity (read: too much money chasing too few goods) is at least partly to blame for China's rising-prices problem. Although some say the July spike was due to short-term food shortages, the increases "are a lot less temporary than some people think," argues Michael Pettis, a professor of finance at Peking University. "China...
...these developments are representative of a credit cycle in which leverage has been ratcheted up to perilous excess. The dénouement of a credit cycle need not end disastrously for investors or the global economy. Even today, we can still point to various economic positives - buoyant global growth, low inflation and enormous investment flows from Asia and the Middle East. But comfort from these forces may be short-lived if credit problems worsen and housing prices keep falling...
...Chrysler shocked the marketplace when it appointed Robert Nardelli, most recently known as a symbol of CEO excess, to run the flagging car company, just days after it was bought by the private-equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. Here are the big questions surrounding the appointment...
Markel and colleagues divided the cities' interventions into three major categories: school closure, cancellation of public gatherings, and isolation and quarantine. During the 24 weeks researchers studied, there were 115,340 excess deaths due to pneumonia and influenza in 43 states, with a collective population of about 23 million. New York City responded to its earliest sign of infection with isolation and quarantine over a sustained period of time, beginning 13 days after the first case was detected, and had the lowest pandemic-related death rate of any city on the East coast. By contrast, Pittsburgh reacted late, waiting...