The ballon burst.

The balloon popped unexpectedly.

The bubble burst in the air.

A blood vessel broke in my eye.

A blood vessel burst inside his brain.

The bridge collapsed when one of the cables broke.

I nearly split my sides laughing at Tom's stories.

The bubble has now burst, and these economies are heading into a steep recession.

But another housing bubble is not imminent in countries where one just burst.

Since the peak of the bubble, the US economy has not even been moving in the right direction.

CAMBRIDGE The bursting of America s housing bubble in the summer of 2006 triggered the global financial crisis and recession. The sharp fall in house prices that followed caused a dramatic downturn in household wealth, leading to lower consumer spending and an overall fall in GDP.

CAMBRIDGE The bursting of America s housing bubble in the summer of 2006 triggered the global financial crisis and recession.

We do not want to inflate another asset price bubble on the scale of the one that burst in 2007 2008.

It s been three years since the bubble broke, and more than two since Lehman Brothers collapse.

Today s global crisis was triggered by the collapse of the US housing bubble, but it was not caused by it. America s credit excesses were in residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, and student loans.

Today s global crisis was triggered by the collapse of the US housing bubble, but it was not caused by it.

This sealed the fate of a number of financial companies when the US property bubble exploded in 2007.

At that time, Japan s budget deficit soared after the country s property bubble burst, causing economic stagnation.

Several analysts have concluded that Brazil s bubble has burst, and that the so called country of the future will remain stuck in the present.

The popping of such an asset bubble is what happened in Japan 10 years ago, an event from which that country has not yet recovered.

Now that the housing bubble has burst, the US finds itself out trained, out educated, and out maneuvered in the global competition for employment.

The decline in the WES indicator during the last two quarters was the sharpest since 2001, when the stock market bubble burst.

The housing price bubble eventually broke, and, with prices declining, some have discovered that their mortgages are larger than the value of their house.

The policy of ultra low interest rates was justified in the aftermath of the bursting of Japan s asset price bubble, but Japan stabilized its economy long ago. At this stage, the policy has become a contributor to global financial fragility, and it may be retarding Japan s own prosperity by contributing to consumer anxieties.

The real estate bubble inflated and collapsed partly because millions of Americans borrowed more than they could afford to repay and knew it.

The policy of ultra low interest rates was justified in the aftermath of the bursting of Japan s asset price bubble, but Japan stabilized its economy long ago.

Now that the bubble has burst, America s current economic downturn is likely to be far worse than previous ones, because US enterprises will have to be rebuilt, slowly and carefully.

Indeed, according to Sinai, higher oil prices are the biggest risk...since the bursting of the stock market bubble in 2000 2001.

The housing price bubble eventually broke, and, with prices declining, some have discovered that their mortgages are larger than the value of their house.

Japan s ultra low interest rate policy was initiated in the 1990 s to put a floor under the economy following the bursting of its asset price bubble.

The periphery of the European Union Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Greece also began a borrowing binge a decade ago, upon joining the euro, fueling a real estate boom that likewise went bust.

With the collapse of the second bubble in a decade, central banks again acted quickly, lowering rates to zero (or close to it) almost everywhere.

The excessive boom of the US stock market led to over investment in the United States and a subsequent US recession when the bubble finally burst.

After Japan s bubble burst, annual GDP growth, which averaged 5.8 in the four years preceding the bust, plummeted to 0.9 for the next four years.

When the housing bubble burst and financial markets collapsed in its wake, growth slumped worldwide as never before since the Great Depression.

Since consumer spending has been the remaining bulwark of the US economy since the collapse of the financial bubble, war with Iraq could puncture the last point of stability in the US economy.

There are many reasons why the bubble has burst, and why gold prices are likely to move much lower, toward 1,000 by 2015.

A decade later, efforts to keep the Yen in line with American views produced the Japanese bubble economy, for which many Japanese blamed America after it burst.

BRUSSELS The first decade of this century started with the so called dot com bubble. When it burst, central banks moved aggressively to ease monetary policy in order to prevent a prolonged period of Japanese style slow growth.

CAMBRIDGE There is a reasonable chance that the U.S. economy is living through a speculative bubble of the same kind that has burst for so many other economies this past decade Japan, Korea, Mexico, to name a few.

Japan waited almost two years after its asset bubble collapsed to ease monetary policy and provide a fiscal stimulus, whereas in the US both steps came early.

That tide of reality what Alexander Solzhenitsyn once called the pitiless crowbar of events burst the closed bubble of Romney s campaign, its walls breached as decisively as those of lower Manhattan and Far Rockaway.

NEW YORK When the US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, triggering the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression, a broad consensus about what caused the crisis seemed to emerge.

In a classic example of reflexivity, when China s stock market boom turned into July s bust, the government responded with a 200 billion attempt to support prices, closely followed by a small devaluation of the previously stable renminbi.

Gold prices started to rise sharply in the first half of 2008, when emerging markets were overheating, commodity prices were rising, and there was concern about rising inflation in high growth emerging markets. Even that rise was partly a bubble, which collapsed in the second half of 2008, when after oil reached 145, killing global growth the world economy fell into recession.