Sentences with phrase «in bubbles with»

After the field tests were administered, some news reports documented a range of problems, including students struggling to master the technicalities of taking a test online instead of filling in bubbles with a pencil.

For example, we showed in collaborative work with Jeffrey I. Gordon's laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis last year that transferring the microbes from an obese person into mice raised in a bubble with no microbes of their own resulted in fatter mice.

Constant repetition is only good if you plan to live in a bubble with your dog.

Not exact matches

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.»

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.

But beginning in 1997 the stock market entered a bubble, where corporate profits leveled off and even declined slightly, but the stock market continued to boom with the dot com craze.

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?

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.

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.

Here we see that folks with FICO scores above 720 are receiving the majority of new loans, whereas in 2000, before the real estate market was close to bubble territory, the distribution was much more even.

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.

Moniz said the idea to come up with a bold R&D plan has been «bubbling now in the last few months» but accelerated in the weeks before the Paris summit.

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.

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.

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 chart below from Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment officer at AMP Capital, puts Bitcoin in historic perspective with other major asset bubbles.

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.

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).

At the event itself, conference guests were treated to a bubble of uncensored internet in hotels, including access to Google, Facebook and foreign news outlets with specialized codes handed out to guests.

The program empowers «definite optimists,» but also highlights Thiel's view that we are in an «education bubble,» in which colleges saddle undergraduates with needless debt by tricking them into thinking their degrees will be worth more than they really will be.

«The level of valuations in the equity markets are not bubbles, but it's tough to argue any of the components of equity markets are undervalued globally, with the best example being the U.S.,» Davis told CNBC.

The issue isn't just that Facebook creates so - called «filter bubbles,» in which users are presented with information with which they are likely to agree.

The state has since been bumped from the list by the Dominican Republic and Portugal, but still grapples with double - digit unemployment, the after - effects of the housing bubble and a US$ 1.3 - billion drop in income tax revenue in the first four months of this year.

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.

Steve Blank today solidly declares himself on board with the line of thinking that after the lean - start - up period of the past decade, we're back in a new dot - com bubble.

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.

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.

They were so enamored with Holmes, so swept up in the unicorn feeding frenzy of the private equity bubble, that they failed to conduct basic due diligence.

Consequently, if you could be privy to their discussions behind your back or among friends and family, you'd hear that resentment bubble up and expressed constantly, in many different ways, and agreed with and encouraged by those around them.

Sure, «that is a time to celebrate,» wrote Wright — but it's also «when the CEO should be moving board members out who have been a strong part of the bubble and moving new board members in who can deal with the downside.»

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.»

With analysts at UBS estimating that blockchains could be a $ 300 billion to $ 400 billion global industry by 2027, it's clear that regardless of what happens in the bitcoin bubble, blockchain technology is here to stay.

After the bubble burst in 2000, I was talking about the ideas in Good to Great with some portfolio companies of venture capitalists.

With the Nasdaq finally surpassing its dotcom peak on Friday, worries about a return to the tech bubble are back in focus.

Anchal Lamba and her family have been big fans of bubble tea, a drink popularized in Taiwan made with tea, milk and tapioca balls.

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.

Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, who called the October 1987 crash, believes markets are in a dangerous financial bubble thanks to Federal Reserve's «obsession» with inflation targeting.

Bonds are a global phenomenon with even bigger bubbles elsewhere, particularly in NIRP countries, such as those in Europe, and in Japan.

The only expansion cycles greater than the current experience occurred in the mid-1980s (1984 - 87, ending with the Black Monday collapse) and during the Tech Bubble of the late 1990s.

During the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, dozens of tech startups emerged that had no viable business plans, no products or services ready to bring to market, and in many cases nothing more than a name (usually something tech - sounding with «com» or «net» as a suffix).

This could have a catastrophic effect of creating a real estate bubble, with apartment prices in Copenhagen that already soared as much as 60 percent since 2012.

Granted we've had some impressive spikes along the way, especially with once in a life time bubble we just went through.

The company is also seeking deeper inroads into rare diseases, with a number of assets in late - stage development, and last year it scored a major regulatory win when Europe approved its «bubble boy syndrome» gene therapy Strimvelis.

Lightpath Technologies, Inc., a provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries, hit an all - time low at 30 cents in February of 2009 after a multi-year fall that began with the dot.com bubble in 2000.

John Bogle at Vanguard wasn't engaging in market timing when he looked at the returns on stocks versus the returns on bonds during the dot - com bubble and decided that investors were faced with a once - in - a-lifetime mispricing event.

MH: Every stock market bubble in history, starting with the South Sea and Mississippi bubbles in the 1710s in Britain and France, has been sponsored by government.

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.

Asset prices are in fact much more sensitive to monetary policy than either the economy or inflation are, with the incumbent risk of fueling market bubbles.