Sentences with phrase «in a bubble like»

But is Ethereum in a bubble like this Forbes writer says?

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Here's hoping that when the tech bubble inevitably bursts, the site will make another one comparing real - estate prices to the crummiest places on the planet, like perhaps this decrepit oil rig in the middle of the sea.

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.

«In hindsight, this period will probably end up looking like the internet bubble of the late 1990s.

Last March, for example, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote that he had been blindsided by Trump's primary victory largely because he — like many in his profession — did not venture out beyond their own bubbles.

What's going on now in technology doesn't look to me like the dot - com bubble we saw in the late 1990s.

Some analysts say that Bitcoin looks like a bubble, and while the currency won't go away, it will see a significant negative price correction sometime in the near future.

Poloz was at his sunniest when he testified recently to the finance committee in Ottawa — «We don't believe we're in a bubble,» he told the assembled MPs, saying he sees no signs of the speculative activity that typically characterizes a bubble, like people buying multiple houses to flip them.

«I remember this one company during the tech bubbles, before they were in some traditional industrial space and then suddenly like dot - com, the stock suddenly jumped seven-fold,» he said.

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.

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.

They also enjoy taking in local customs like the Lunar New Year and local delicacies like bubble tea.

The housing bubbles in Vancouver and Toronto — just like the bubbles in Sydney, Hong Kong and others — are the result of ultra-low interest rates for longer and longer and longer.

In addition, much like their product packaging — pink bubble wrap adorned with emoji - like stickers — Glossier stores are perfect fodder for Instagram and Snapchat (which the startup routinely mines, so its data analytics tools can measure how popular each product is on social media.

In his book, Chaos Monkeys (HarperCollins, 2016), author Antonio Garcia Martinez seeks to paint an authentic portrait of what it's like to live inside the Silicon Valley tech bubble.

Interns also have a speaker series that features Alphabet VPs and they're encouraged to participate in goofy events like «bubble soccer» or archery tag (think dodgeball, but with play - arrows).

What had seemed to Sachs like a chance for colossal appreciation turned out to be just another casualty in the bursting Internet bubble.

The upshot: the EV shift might usher in the age of a bubble - or pod - shaped car like those popularised by the 1960s futuristic animated comedy series, The Jetsons.

That's especially significant in light of today's concerns that many Facebook users are in a «filter bubble» that exposes them mostly to people with views like their own.

Some, like prominent Greenlight Capital investor David Einhorn, have gone so far as to predict that we're in a Tesla bubble.

Economists like Christopher Thornberg of Beacon Economics say asset bubbles become dangerous when they lead to other imbalances in the economy.

But the people who wake up high on that mountain in a howling storm are in grave danger, like the technology people after the bubble burst.

The risks of this kind of private control over speech are obvious when it comes to things like filter bubbles or the role that «fake news» plays in political movements.

Who knows if the tech / real estate bubble will pop now or 3 years from now, but thoughts on condos in a «premium» location like PH both for lifestyle, cap appreciation, and rental (I'd consider renting it out to start).

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 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.

-- Deleveraging and the reverse wealth effect: I've written in lots of places how debt bubbles, like those involving mortgages, take a lot longer to work through then equity bubbles.

In the mad scramble for loan creation during the final phase of the Housing Bubble, the government created an environment of essentially free money by allowing the big agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (or Phony and Fraudie, as I often affectionately refer to them), to securitize loans to the bottom of the barrel risks with crazy terms like no money down and incredibly low «teaser» interest rates.

The recent stock market and real estate bubbles are much like pyramid schemes in the sense that what is bidding up stock and property prices is an exponential inflow of new money from pension plans and mutual funds (for shares) and bank credit (for real estate).

It turns out that he is still right, and the effect of being right is that equities are far more overvalued than may be evident even on measures like the Shiller CAPE (see An Open Letter to the FOMC: Recognizing the Valuation Bubble in Equities).

RK: The reason this feels so much like a bubble is because there are so many companies out there who continue to invest in user growth who haven't proven unit economics or certainly haven't proven that they can build unit economics off of a contained infrastructure and ultimately be profitable.

Terms like «asset bubble» and «easy money» aren't in their normal vocabulary.

The only other times CAPE climbed like this was before the market crash of 1929 and the bursting of the tech bubble in the early 2000s.

The hyperbolic price movements of bitcoin since its early 2009 inception have been very bubble - like in nature.

I would suggest that when the current stock bubble pops, the two areas in red circles above will look like small blips in comparison to the carnage that is in store for the junk bond market.

The folks who saw this coming, like Dean Baker (and Jamie Galbraith, Roubini, Krugman, Shiller... me, after Dean convinced me) either didn't depend on such models or gave a prominent role to the debt bubble in addition to the standard models.

I had no idea what the company did except for the fact that Internet + China in December 1999 sounded like a fantastic idea during one of the greatest bubbles of our times.

Instead of fulfilling my oath, I decided to cower in the corner like a scared child in the night because the internet bubble began to burst in March 2000.

Well, there is a bubble in a bunch of asset classes simultaneously, like:

As local population patterns look more like the pre-bubble period, with accelerating growth in the suburbs and the Sunbelt, it becomes clearer that some of the population shifts during the housing bubble and bust were temporary and reflected the extreme housing cycle.

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In other words, they're going to keep a ponzi scheme going much like the real estate bubble.

With rates as close to zero as they've been in decades, today's bond market looks like a bubble to me.

When the Nordic Housing Bubble pops, formerly high - flying countries like Norway and Finland will have more in common with Spain and Italy than they ever imagined was possible.

In its Q1 report, the financial institution centered on bubbles throughout the monetary markets; for Q2 it's alerting buyers to the truth that we're nearing the «end of a cycle like no other.»

This is where a strong, long - term record comes in useful — it is easier to have confidence in a «crackpot» if they have previous form (e.g. having stubbornly avoided an event like the 1999 tech - stock bubble).

I sense bias in the comment by the way, like the author (s) felt it was a bubble and were shocked the responses were so low.

Also many debt collection service companies like CLH had recently plummeted 50 % or more in just few days and given huge Australian housing bubble and miners debts they may rise again soon.

Historically speaking, there are obviously some periods when you could have made a killing in gold if you timed it just right by getting in before the bubble and then getting out at the top, but like any other investment or investment sector, you would almost have to be a psychic to achieve that.

Now that rentier property ownership is developing in many ways like the West, the task of the coming generation is to make sure that China remains free of the real estate and financial bubble that has left entire Western economies in debt peonage and negative equity.