bubbles – Simon Taylor's Blog

5 Mar 2026

Debt-fuelled bubbles are the dangerous ones

by Simon Taylor | posted in: Finance sector, Key finance concepts | 0

Bubbles are an enduring feature of financial and commodity markets. But it is when they are driven by debt that their bursting becomes dangerous * The best book I’ve read on financial bubbles is William Quinn and John D. Turner’s … Continued

Simon is Management Practice Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. From 2008-2018 he was the first Director of the University of Cambridge Master of Finance (MFin) degree, and was later the first Director of the University's Global Executive MBA. An economist and former equities analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup, he teaches on financial markets and institutions, infrastructure finance and the world financial system. He is a Fellow in Management at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he is a member of the investment committee, and a research associate of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group, where he specialises in nuclear finance.

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