Conversely, a social evil, such as the decline of the two - parent American family, need not be the cause of all the world's ills, such
as the bubble in the housing market.
Some people experience intense aversion and anxiety when they see clusters of roughly circular shapes, such
as the bubbles in a cup of coffee or the holes in a sponge.
The sophisticated champagne bar will impress your date and you'll find conversation will flow as easily
as the bubbles in your glass.
As far
as a bubble in Denver goes, the house prices are rising along with rent prices.
Not exact matches
Strongin also pointed to the dotcom
bubble of the late 90s
as an example of what may be
in store for investors.
Instead, he seems like someone who has been building toward this moment all his life, and now that it's arrived, he is enveloped
in a
bubble of calm rationality,
as if he's thought it all through
in advance.
Life appears easier and faster
in the digital utopia, but our
bubble of joy pops
as soon
as the question of security arises.
Porter, who believes Toronto real estate is definitely
in a
bubble, anticipates the market will follow a similar trajectory
as Vancouver, with sales dropping but prices not moving much
in either direction.
That means less potential danger to the larger economy from a sudden event, such
as was seen when the Dotcom
bubble popped
in 2000.
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.
By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth
in technology startups and stocks, just
as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last
bubble.
In November, the Nasdaq composite index broke 4,000 for the first time since the last
bubble burst, inflated by stocks even some CEOs, such
as Elon Musk from Tesla and Netflix's Reed Hastings, warned were overpriced.
In January 2009, both The Wall Street Journal and Forbes cited Paul
as one of the few who identified early on the formation of the housing
bubble and the economic and financial market havoc that would ensue after the
bubble inevitably burst.
For many, the Skype deal is seen — along with exuberance for the LinkedIn IPO and sky - high private valuations of companies such
as Facebook —
as a sign of a fast - inflating technology
bubble: What else could explain such a lofty price tag for a company that lost $ 7 million
in 2010 and $ 418 million the year before?
The bears don't believe Genworth will be picking up the slack because «they too are subject to a parliamentary cap of $ 250 billion,» at least
as stated
in this article, «The under - the - radar changes that may soon deflate (or pop) the housing
bubble.»
To be clear, calling the cryptocurrency market
in a given month a hype - driven
bubble is not the same thing
as deriding the technology.
If the stock market seemed like it was zooming along during the dot - com boom of 1999 — later to become known
as a
bubble — just try keeping up with it
in 2016.
Kuroda has been beating that drum for years and his comments
in confirmation hearings
in the past two weeks suggest he plans to pump cash into the economy much more aggressively than outgoing Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, who was reluctant to be too bold for fear of sowing the seeds of future problems, such
as an economic
bubble.
Although there may not be a bond
bubble, with investors starved for yield, Gundlach predicts a potential
bubble could form
in credit risk
as investors increase their leverage on riskier debt securities like junk bonds and emerging market debt.
Success can be lonely because
as with Kurt and Amy you find yourself surrounded by a
bubble and often a
bubble with vested interests
in your actions.
Warnings of a bitcoin
bubble also surged
in 2013,
as the price jumped to $ 1,000.
But the residential construction industry has remained sick since the bursting of the housing
bubble in the late 2000s, even
as home prices recovered.
The upheaval we've been through
in the past few years
as the private debt
bubble burst is only a preview of what's to come, concludes Mauldin, the president of Millennium Wave Advisors (writing here with an editor for an economic analysis firm).
Tailored beauty ads are unlikely to do any harm (except perhaps to less digitally savvy lipstick manufacturers), but the idea that we may soon be living
in information
bubbles so finely crafted
as to suit our very personalities and bombarded with political messages designed to push our specific buttons, has worrying implications for civic conversation.
Of course,
in the post-Snowden era, global corporations must walk a fine line when it comes to sharing information with the U.S. government,
as battles around privacy, encryption and regulatory oversight continue to
bubble below the surface.
Back
in October last year —
as Bitcoin was
in the middle of a momentous rise that came to an end months later — he wrote that regulation would pop the growing
bubble.
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.
However, if the economy is near or above its potential,
as some measures indicate, it may merely cause faster - than - desired price increases, or a jump
in stock and other asset values that raise concerns of a
bubble.
Each said they knew they were contributing to a
bubble; their bosses had told them to rake
in as much
as they could before it burst.
For a long time this single, unpredictable event eclipsed other growing problems such
as the popping of the technology
bubble that had been a huge job creator and wealth generator
in the Pacific Northwest, and the gradual rise of the Canadian dollar to parity that made Whistler less of a bargain compared to Aspen or Vail.
And there are plenty of people, such
as JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon, who say the whole thing is a
bubble that will blow up
in investors» faces.
The 2016 U.S. presidential election heightened public awareness of a concept known
as the «filter
bubble,» coined by Upworthy co-founder Eli Pariser and explored in his 2011 book The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We
bubble,» coined by Upworthy co-founder Eli Pariser and explored
in his 2011 book The Filter
Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We
Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think.
The Telegraph reported that 4,000 out of a total of 8,000 interns working
in the EU «
bubble» were unpaid,
as of 2016.
At the same time, Silicon Valley knows it could do more to foster a sense of goodwill with the rest of the country, which does not live
in its cloistered
bubble of wealth and privilege, and yet has
as much at stake when it comes to immigration reform.
The one he ultimately chose, a $ 14,000 CitEcar Electro
Bubble Buddy, can be described
as something between a golf cart and a delivery van; it's an electric - powered utility vehicle that plugs
in overnight to recharge, eliminating refueling downtime.
But unlike America's latest housing market
bubble, which saw the supply of new homes rise rapidly
as investors banked on new mortgages, there is no increase
in the supply of farmland.
At the same time, Burry, who made a fortune
in last decade's financial crisis by betting that the housing
bubble would burst, is also gaining a following north of Hollywood,
as a Silicon Valley tech investor.
For him, excitement over value fluctuations
in the bitcoin currency is missing the point: «It's not a threat
as people sit there and ponder whether bitcoin is a
bubble or not.
The company could also be spending carelessly or spending on the wrong things,
as we saw
in the infamous dot - com
bubble.
And while I spent the next decade
as a senior executive
in a number of successful companies, big and small, my only stint
as a startup CEO ended
in bankruptcy when the dot - com
bubble burst.
As Olaf Carlson - Wee, founder of the hedge fund Polychain Capital and a bull
in the market, told me during a cocktail hour after the event, «It's only a
bubble if it crashes.»
You don't invest
in tech companies
in general -; should we take that
as a sign of a start - up
bubble?
Twelve years ago
in the Internet
bubble, those companies had the same valuations
as some do today, but they weren't bringing
in any money.
«Being there
in late 1990s, [I] was witness to many successful projects,
as well
as failures and lived through the
bubbles and the busts,» he says.
That aspect of him
bubbled into public view with Compuware, the Detroit - based business software maker that eventually sold to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $ 2.4 billion
in 2014
as a result of Elliott's campaign.
Some, like prominent Greenlight Capital investor David Einhorn, have gone so far
as to predict that we're
in a Tesla
bubble.
Reading «Disrupted» strictly
as a memoir of career transition — rather than
as some sort of exposé of life at HubSpot or life «
in the startup
bubble,»
as the title provocatively puts it — will open your eyes to many of of the book's finer points.
As you tap each
bubble, it gets numbered for the order it will appear
in the post.
As for the general public, the kind of frenzy that marked the late 1990s dotcom
bubble in the stock market has yet to appear.
Besides inflating the largest real estate
bubble in world history, this massive infusion of debt also financed many white elephant projects, such
as useless infrastructure and excess steel, automobile, and cement factories.