Bubbles

WATCH: Astronaut Makes Mind-Boggling 'Antibubble' Aboard ISS

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Video, Nasa, Antibubble, Don Pettit, Space, Physics, Space Science, International Space Station, Science, Science News, NASA Astronaut, Bubbles, Science News

The zero-gravity environment inside the International Space Station gives astronauts ample opportunity to have a little fun--as seen in this new space...

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Why It's Hard To Predict Bubbles

Slate | Duncan Watts | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Google, Internet, Linkedin, Initial Price Offering, Investment, LinkedIn IPO, Stock Market, Ipo, Financial Bubbles, Pandora, Business, Bubbles, Business News

The recent sky-high IPO of LinkedIn, along with eye-popping valuations for other social networking and shopping companies, has raised concerns that we...

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WATCH: NASA Discovers 'Bubbles' At Solar System's Edge

The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Video, Nasa, Nasa Voyager, Heliosphere, Solar System Bubbles, Bubbles, Voyager, NASA News, Magnetic Bubbles, Technology News

NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft have made a baffling discovery along their journey to the outer limits of the solar system. Scientists studying the...

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New Stock Market Signal Identifies Bubbles

Wired | Brandon Keim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Reserve Bank, Yaneer Bar Yam, Economic Theories, Behavioral Economics, Comovement, Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Bubbles, Crashes, Crashes Signal, Business News

Complexity researchers who study the behavior of stock markets may have identified a signal that precedes crashes. They say the telltale sign is a me...

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The Case Against Bubbles

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salmon, Michael Mandel, Newsweek, Felix Salmon, Deregulation, New York Times, Tim Duy, Businessweek, Recession, Bubbles, Business News
Robert Teitelman

It seems the wise thing to do is to resist enthusiasm for any new innovation. That's not to say that technological bubbles will not emerge. But why encourage a very dangerous process?

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The Market Is in Bubble Mode Again

Steven Bulwa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investing, Wall Street Bailout, New Technology, Wall Street Bonuses, Tech Bubble, Housing Crisis, Bubbles, Business News
Steven Bulwa

The market is sending investors the wrong message. The more I watch it rise the more concerned I get. While others applaud the market's gains as a spo...

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Sunday in The Park

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lovers, Ducks, Central Park, Saxophone, Walkers, Slidepollajax, Travel, Living, Sunday, Rowers, Portrait, Bubbles, New York, Accordian, Dogs, Breaking News, Breaking Living News, Healthy Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

Spending a Sunday in Central Park is never a disappointment. There are unexpected surprises at every turn. ...

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Emily Raboteau's 'The Structure of Bubbles'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Emily Raboteau Short Stories, Narrative Magazine, Emily Raboteau Books, Story Emily Raboteau, Friday Feature Narrative Magazine, Racism, Race, Emily Raboteau, Bubbles, Raboteau, Emily Raboteau Writing, Books News

Emily Raboteau is a novelist, an award-winning short story writer (Pushcart Prize, Nelson Algren Award), and a professor at City College of New York. ...

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Is There A Government Bond Bubble?

Laurence J. Kotlikoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Interest Rates, Hyperinflation, Inflation, Securities, Bubbles, Bonds, Fiscal Policy, Business News
Laurence J. Kotlikoff

YES, there is a government bond bubble. And it's huge. Uncle Sam and his counterparts in the EU and Japan are broke and are, almost surely, going to...

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Michael Jackson's Pet Chimp Needs Donations For Retirement

AOL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson Pets, Chimp Adoption, Michael Jackson, Adopt Bubbles, Michael Jackson Chimp, Bubbles, Michael Jackson Bubbles, Green News

When Michael Jackson died last year, his will made provisions for his kids, his mom and pet charities, but what about his pet chimp, Bubbles? It has ...

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Student Loans: The New Big Bubble

Bob Samuels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Bubble, Federal Student Loans, College, Student Loan, Student Loans, Student Loan Defaults, Bubbles, College News
Bob Samuels

The free market is really a giant Ponzi scheme where companies hold down workers wages so that the employees are forced to live on debt, and then this debt is bought and sold on a global market.

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Investors: Beware the Quackery of Economic Goats, Whitewashers and Charlatans

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Carry-Trade, Unemployment, Jim O'Neill, Finance, Stock Market, Wages, Global Trade, Abby Joseph Cohen, Iceland Financial Crisis, Frederick Mishkin, Short Selling, Bubbles, Business News
Ann Pettifor

Today -- as global trade lies dead, as unemployment rises, as wages and incomes plummet, as US consumption and investment falls -- share prices zoom upwards and commodity prices rock.

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How to Sell Your Maidenhead

E. Jean Carroll | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Virgin, Marketing, Short Selling, Money, Bubbles, Sex, Dennis-Hof, Bunny Ranch, Advice Column Elle, Advice Column, Selling Your Virginity, Healthy Living News
E. Jean Carroll

Why should I waste my purity on a "meaningful" college boyfriend or a saggy sugar daddy when I can receive a pot of gold all in one go?

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The Search for Normalcy

Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Normal, Great Panic of 2008, Normalcy, Risk Management, Post-Bubble, Great Recession, Bubbles, Risk, Financial TImes, Market Equilibrium, Businessweek, Business News
Robert Teitelman

One view of "normal" has come out of the crisis stronger than ever: that "normal" doesn't exist at all, that the belief in market equilibrium has been effectively undermined.

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An Open Letter to Paul Krugman

David K. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Collateral Cycles, Fiscal Stimulus, Financial Crisis, Panics, Paul Krugman, Systemic Risk, Bank Bailout, Too Big to Fail, Economic Theory, Bubbles, Credit Cycles, Business News
David K. Levine

Crises have been ubiquitous throughout history. While we can't forecast them we do know how to learn from them. And we certainly have a good idea what not to do in response.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News
Robbie Gennet

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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How "The Beanie Babies Bubble" Explains The Housing Crisis

wsj.com | KAREN BLUMENTHAL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beanie Babies, Asset Bubbles, Bubbles, Housing Bubble, Business News

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Forget Ponzi Schemes: Try Venture Capital!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Marin County, Bubbles, Venture Capitalists, Start-Ups, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I asked an investment banking friend of mine how many VC deals he knew of in the tech sector over the last ten years. A thousand, he said. And how many are still around? I inquired. Three.

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Michael Jackson's Animals: Where Are They Now?

Huffington Post | Ami Cholia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson Death, Pets, Chimpanzee, Zoo, Michael-Jackson-Animals, Neverland Ranch, Animals, Bubbles, Green News

Michael Jackson has left behind more than just his family and friends behind. The King of Pop also had an entourage of animals that he kept at his pri...

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Michael Jackson's Story: Can't Beat It

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, 1980s, Beat It, Joe Jackson, Bubbles, Oprah, Jackson Five, Lisa Marie, The Gloved One, Michael Jackson Death, Entertainment News
Jon Chattman

As legendary and iconic as he was and will forever be, he always got himself in some kind of trouble. Sadly, the biggest legacy he will have is the true potential he wasted when he was alive.

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Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing Of The Day: Animals Moonwalking (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Jackson, Bubbles Moonwalk Video, Bubbles Moonwalking, Animals Moonwalking, Dog Moonwalks Video, Cat, Cat Moonwalk, King of Pop, Moonwalk, Dog Moonwalk, Animals, Cute Animal Videos, Dog Moonwalk Video, Dancing, Animals Doing the Moonwalk, Bubbles Moonwalks, Dog, Bird Moonwalks, Animals Moonwalk, Bubbles, Video, Comedy News

Of all of Michael's famous moves, none has left as big an impact as the moonwalk. Even the animal world wants in on the action, and while they're not ...

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Rubbernecking: Charm School with Ricki Lake, Season Premiere

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharon Osbourne, Bubbles, Bay Bay Bay, Beverly, Brittanya, Ashley, Charm School With Ricki Lake, Stryker, Alani ?€œLa La? Vazquez, Brittaney Star, 51 Minds, Flavor of Love, Bret Michaels, Rock of Love Bus, Real Chance at Love, I Love New York, I Love Money, Marcia, Natasha, Gia, Mo?Nique, The Surreal Life, Loveline, For the Love of Ray J, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

One girl even said that, rather than go through this show again, "I'd rather eat my own face." Should be a wild ride.

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Vote Out Larry Summers

Naomi Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Economic Policy, Vote Out Larry Summers, Larry Summers, Obama Economy, Obama Economic Advisers, Bubbles, Politics News
Naomi Klein

Summers represents an often overlooked cause of the global financial crisis: Brain Bubbles. Brain Bubbles need to be popped; Larry Summers needs to be stopped!

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Another Bubblectomy!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bubbles, The Economy, The Hope Bubble, Wall Street, Hope, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I read yesterday, as the idiot wind blew the market down another couple hundred points, that the final bubble had popped. The hope bubble. We had it for a time. Now it's gone.

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