Assertion: economy | /r/CapableOf | inflate asset prices
Facets:
value: by financing speculative investment
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In general this can occur when an economy is heavily laden with debt and dependent on the continuous expansion of the supply of credit to inflate asset prices by financing speculative investment, and subsequently when the volume of credit contracts, asset prices fall, and speculative overinvestments are liquidated.