Category Archives: Bubbles
The Next Bubble: Higher Education?
As we have stated before and before, certain factors need to be in place for a bubble to occur. Bubbles were thought to only occur in Securities, Commodities and Art. We now know that to be false, but it has been revised to say that bubbles cannot occur with services or non-durable goods, but only [...]
Next Bubble Watch
As if there hasn’t been enough talk of bubbles recently, we thought we would draw your attention to Alternative Investments. Two Swiss economists, Philippe Masset and Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, analyzed the prices of wine in comparison to the Russell 3000 index (odd comparison) and found that wine would have had the highest return between the two [...]
Should you Buy or Rent?
A recent article by David Leonhardt in the New York Times sparked quite a few responses among other publications, so we thought it was worth posting here. Simply put, it contains a calculator. You enter the data of a house you are interested in, and it tells you whether you should buy it or rent [...]
British Railway Bubbles
Mathematician Andrew Odlyzko has produced an excellent paper (soon possibly to be a book) on the relatively unknown British Railway bubble of the 1840′s. Most people familiar with bubbles will know about the Tulipomania and the South Sea Bubbles (if not, you can read a brief primer about them here), not to mention the more [...]
The Twitter Bubble
For those of you who are avid Twitter users, the following paragraph will be old news: once you join Twitter, you notice how many Followers others have. People you have never heard of, and who seemingly have very little to offer, will have tens of thousands of followers. How come you have so few? Soon [...]
