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there's a market contagion that prices can't fall down,
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they can just go upwards,
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so people in general just start taking more risks
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and financial institutions which grant these subprime loans
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also become overly optimistic.
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They all feel that prices have to go up, and they feel
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that the real value of houses have increased, and that is--
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That sounds like irrational exuberance.
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Okay. It's easy to say that they're irrational.
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It's harder to say that they're rational.
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It would be nice to know if--
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first of all Bob Shiller is a good friend of mine,