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Enlarge / Scientists have long been fascinated with the math and physics of bubbles. (credit: Tim Robberts/Getty Images) A team of mathematicians has devised the most precise recipe yet for blowing perfect bubbles, and it’s not just for fun and frolics. Achieving a better understanding of the dynamics at work could lead to more efficient industrial […]
Paulo Whitaker/Reuters The most prominent US and Chinese tech stocks are worth more, by market cap, than the stock markets of the eurozone and Japan. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent are worth $ 5 trillion, according to data compiled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. US tech stocks are worth even […]
Reuters/Brendan McDermid US corporate debt is seeing one of its worst sell-offs since 2000 after rising 63% in 10 years. Congress recently approved a bill to roll back parts of the Dodd-Frank Act. The corporate bond bubble which began in 1981 is beginning to burst and QE has only accelerated the decline. Two big news […]
Flying water car. The Bubble is a 100 percent electric water taxi created by the French company SeaBubbles. The goal is to lower pollution and provide relief from heavy traffic on busy city streets. It creates no waves, no noise, and no CO2. When the Bubble reaches 7.5 mph, it rises above the water. This […]
The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon will absolutely be back next season. The entire NCIS franchise also appears a lock to return. And you can probably take a sixth season of Mom directly to the bank. But if you remove those half-dozen renewal slam-dunks from the equation, CBS’ scripted schedule is sea of “bubble” shows. […]
By mid-May, the broadcast networks must make some tough calls as to which series will return for the 2018-19 TV season, and which… won’t. As that deadline draws near, TVLine is singling out a few “bubble” shows and sizing up their prospects — based in large part on their creative strides (…and stumbles) and future […]
Reuters Staff There has been an oil bubble, and it bursted. Bulls will be bulls, but the oil market won’t get hot soon. Those analysts who warned that oil prices can’t go on rising forever now have the chance to tell everyone else “I told you so.” Brent and WTI have fallen by 9 percent since the […]
REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire founder of hedge fund Tudor Investment Corporation, said he feels like he’s in his 20s again. In a letter to investors, he identified a number of concerns about the market. These include a mistaken central bank obsession with an inflation target of 2%, a growing deficit, and a […]
Getty Images / Mario Tama The Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, spiked as much as 90% on Monday. It’s on pace to finish with its largest single-day increase since the dotcom bubble. The price swings are a change of pace for a stock market that’s sat mostly unperturbed for months. The stock market is finally […]
Bitcoin is a bubble. That much was clear to economists, investors, and analysts for quite some time. But one of the shortcomings of such analysis is that certainty of an economic bubble offers little insight on how, when, or why that bubble will pop. “I can say almost with certainty that they will come to […]
