Sentences with phrase «bubble about a bubble»

He has positioned himself as a bubble about a bubble, madness about madness, as much of a statement on popular delusion as a product of it.

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«I don't believe in questions about bubbles,» he said.

With the right pathway to profitability, startups can still find success and stop worrying about any bubbles bursting.

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.»

Nevertheless, recent media reports about the apparent boom - bust of some Chinese bike - sharing companies, for instance, have fueled bubble speculation.

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.

By next year, there are questions to answer about what data should guide policy and the extent to which preventing asset - price bubbles should influence the benchmark interest rate.

That way, you won't be confused about why the entire African nation is enveloped in a bubble.

Hedge fund legend Julian Robertson Jr. sees stock market valuations as «very high» and worries about a bubble forming.

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.

The refusal to acknowledge the bad debts incurred by banks during its property bubble plunged Japan into its «lost decade» and ended talk about Japanese global domination.

We talked to the charismatic Blockchain.info CEO about Bitcoin's recent rocky press, its price ups and downs, and if we're headed for another bubble.

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.

VCs like Bill Gurley and Chamath Palihapitiya have been warning of a tech bubble burst and urging startups to think about profit early on.

Much of the rest of the interview is spent fear mongering about a bubble in the bond market and its inevitable collapse:

The housing bubble and subsequent meltdown wasn't just about exotic mortgage practices, it was also about a policy mandate to encourage homeownership that got out of hand.

This is not yet another story about the real estate bubble.

For example, we talk about the dot - com bubble in 2000, but that was 18 years ago.

However, when it comes to speculating on value of cryptocurrency, they worry about this becoming a bubble and a source of problem for educated investors.

«If you think about the creation of asset bubbles, that's always what happens,» Ariely says.

Tesla's stock has been hitting all - time highs this week, which has some investors worried about a Tesla bubble.

As the rest of the country worries about the slow pace of economic recovery, the tech world frets about whether there's a new start - up 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.

Click on each of the bubbles, below, to learn more about them.

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.

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.

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.

You hear a lot of talk these days about the commercial real estate bubble, and how it'll be the next to burst.

The two most discussed concerns this past year were about diversity of viewpoints we see (filter bubbles) and accuracy of information (fake news).

Not to burst any bubbles, but there are literally no rumors or whispers or blurry images or credible forum posts or whatever else about a new Xbox console.

Is there a tech bubble that's about to burst?

«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.

Posts about cryptocurrency have exploded on Reddit, according to data analyzed by MarketWatch, prompting yet more speculation that the assets are a bubble about to pop, or entering the mainstream — depending on which side of the fence you stand.

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.

But even if you're not sure about the solution his company is offering, his point about the need to unclog the information bottlenecks that allow bubbles to form around top management is a good spur to get any entrepreneur thinking about how to access the unvarnished opinions of his or her employees.

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.

Does this mean our housing bubble (if you believe there is one) is about to burst?

Rumors bubbled up periodically about McMaster's impending firing, but he remained with the administration until now.

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.

Some industry participants, however, are already worried about a bubble forming, and rising debt levels as local governments jump into e-sports investment.

On a recent Ventured podcast, I spoke with KPCB general partner Randy Komisar about whether or not there's a tech bubble and the consequences of raising too much capital.