Much of the rest of the interview is spent fear mongering
about a bubble in the bond market and its inevitable collapse:
Tell them you're worried
about a bubble in U.S. stocks and what it could do to your portfolio and they'll ask you why you're worried and when you might need to start drawing money from the account.
Alan Greenspan is warning of a bubble in stocks and bond king Bill Gross is warning
about a bubble in bonds and now some analysts are saying that oil is in a bubble.
Oklahoma State at Texas (Tuesday): Oklahoma State has gone from worrying about seed lines to worrying
about the bubble in a few weeks.
Concerns
about a bubble in both communities had been mounting since... Read More
Concerns
about a bubble in both communities had been mounting since 2011.
The price of bitcoin, the most popular and well - known blockchain - based digital currency, had shot up dramatically — and then fallen as rapidly — in December, prompting concerns
about a bubble in a financial instrument whose investment value is still being hotly debated.
Not exact matches
«I don't believe
in questions
about bubbles,» he said.
In a conversation with Term Sheet, Hippeau discussed how New York's landscape has changed, why he thinks Masayoshi Son is not a
bubble - maker, and what companies can do
about «superstar harassers.»
She also talks
about cryptocurrencies which she says, «
in the current incarnation, are
in a
bubble.»
In early 2004, as American house prices roared higher and there came dire warnings from some quarters
about the existence of a
bubble — accompanied, of course, by strident denials from banks, most economists and the mortgage and real estate industries — Ben Bernanke (then still a governor before he became Fed chairman) addressed the problem of what to tell the American people.
That way, you won't be confused
about why the entire African nation is enveloped
in a
bubble.
Achieving that unworldly valuation
in such a short time has Butterfield fielding lots of questions lately
about tech
bubbles and whether these sudden fortunes are built on solid foundations or merely the giddiness of a moment.
I've written
about this plenty, perhaps too much, but it's hard for people to get a handle on what's going on when we're not really
in a
bubble anymore, but not
in a crash either.
For example, we talk
about the dot - com
bubble in 2000, but that was 18 years ago.
Cathcart didn't talk
about any of the potential down - sides of this approach, such as the «filter
bubble» effect that can keep users from seeing potentially important topics because they don't fit the platform's pre-conceived notions of what that user is already interested
in.
We spent
about an hour drinking tea and just soaking
in the view before it was time for us to gear up and head over to the «
bubble» for breakfast.»
One way to escape the
bubble and see what's really going on
in an organization is to develop relationships with line employees, including manufacturing workers and salespeople who know a great deal
about the company's interactions with the outside world.
The long - lasting success of Amazon is one thing; the quick rise of Uber seems to suggest were are
in the middle of another
bubble about to explode.
Using new gas - injection technology that creates gas
bubbles in the middle layer of the bottle wall, the company reduced the amount of plastic that goes into each container by 15 %, which works out to
about 275 tonnes of plastic a year.
«I will admit to really underestimating cryptocurrencies for years,» he told CNBC, noting that
in his book
about investing for millennials he compared the crypto price surge to historical market
bubbles.
Russ Lombardo, a sales consultant based
in Cary, North Carolina, was working with a company
about a decade ago (during the dot - com
bubble) when the company's CEO made an announcement to his employees: «He said there was no reason we couldn't do 70 percent growth for the next two years,» Lombardo recalls.
The
bubble was breached
in 2007 when 02138, a now defunct magazine for Harvard alumni, published a lengthy story
about the dispute over Facebook's beginnings.
In October, the UBS Chief Investment Office published a report called «Cryptocurrencies: Beneath the
bubble,» which estimated that blockchain technology could
about add $ 300 billion to $ 400 billion to the global economy by 2027.
Noting that the value of tech stocks at the height of the dot - com
bubble was many times the size of the current cryptocurrency market (with a total value of
about $ 519 billion), Citi's report conceded that it may be a while before the crypto
bubble bursts: «
Bubbles can build
in plain sight, be duly identified, and prove highly durable for a period measured
in years.»
After the
bubble burst
in 2000, I was talking
about the ideas
in Good to Great with some portfolio companies of venture capitalists.
«Everyone talks
about getting to the end of a
bubble, not just
in American whiskey, but
in all whiskey,» says Hansell.
With the Nasdaq finally surpassing its dotcom peak on Friday, worries
about a return to the tech
bubble are back
in focus.
[A] s rates reached their lowest level ever
in 2016, investors rather worried
about the «biggest bond market
bubble in history» coming to a violent end.
For co-founder Henry Blodget, the sale of Business Insider caps a remarkable second act: A former securities analyst during the dot - com
bubble of the late 1990s, Blodget was charged with fraud
in 2002 for publicly promoting stocks that he was privately skeptical
about.
We're
in a cycle — I don't believe
in the questions
about the
bubble.
At first, Maes» favorite Black Mirror episodes were the ones that related the most closely to her own work
in augmented reality, filter
bubbles and memory — like the «grain» episode
about the pitfalls of total recall, or the twist ending
in the Hololens - like «Men Against Fire.»
The markets started to turn
in late June as investors grew concerned
about a potential
bubble.
It's fun to be witnessing a
bubble in my adulthood — just seeing the euphoria and literally hearing my barber talking
about buying bitcoin is almost surreal.
The implication of Harari's argument3 is pretty hard to wrap one's head around.4 Take the term «tulip
bubble»: everyone knows it is
in reference to a speculative mania that will end
in a crash, even those like me — and now you — that have learned
about what actually happened
in the Netherlands
in the winter of 1636.
In fact, if I were RS, I'd worry more
about financial and other sectoral (housing)
bubbles ending expansions more than I'd worry
about full employment driving wage - push inflation.
By way of a comparison, this ratio peaked at
about 6.1 per cent
in the U.S.
in the mid-2000s at the height of its housing
bubble, and toward the end of the 1980s
in Japan, when that country was nearing the end of its own property boom.
It knows it has
bubbles in its property and equity markets but it also has the political power and determination to do something
about it.
In this respect, we need to think hard about what we can do to prevent the type of speculative bubbles that occurred from causing so much damage in the futur
In this respect, we need to think hard
about what we can do to prevent the type of speculative
bubbles that occurred from causing so much damage
in the futur
in the future.
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As with any new venture there was a learning curve and after a lot of reading
about the value of cryptocurrencies and whether they are
in a
bubble, are a currency, have any real value, etc..
It was
in Kindleberger's book that I also first learned
about the impact of the Franco - Prussian War of 1870 - 71 and the subsequent reparations payments on global financial markets (which I discuss extensively
in a February blog entry) and
in unleashing the final stage of a global liquidity
bubble that ended with the various panics of 1873.
«People don't believe housing is
in a
bubble and don't want to hear talk
about prices being a little bit bubblish.»
Multiply that by the millions or billions that venture capitalists were throwing at this
bubble, and it's easy to see why big money managers were
in a technology euphoria and not too worried
about the underlying fundamentals of these companies.
It is 100 % higher than
in 2008, when we were not worried
about a Chinese financial
bubble.
You talked
about animal spirits, which I have heard you talk
about before, and I have also been supportive of that notion
in the sense of capital markets because
bubbles often flow from exuberance and optimism and all those characteristics.
Of course, there was much talk
in the late 1990s
about the possible coming tech bust - Tech
Bubble 1.0 - as the sector's shares escalated to lofty heights, until they finally crashed.
We can argue
about that, but there's no denying that D - F was put
in place precisely because under - regulated financial markets helped inflate the housing
bubble which kinda blew up the economy.
Many investors are anxious
about a possible
bubble in stock markets, but those fears seem overblown to us.
But with the surge of interest has come concerns
about the bitcoin market being
in a
bubble.