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Vernon Smith on the housing bubble, Adam Smith, and libertarianism — [VIDEO]

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Bubble phases – (e.g., tulip mania, dot-com bubble, prediction market bubble) — [CHART]

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China’s ghost cities — [VIDEO]

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Education is a bubble in a classic sense. To call something a bubble, it must be overpriced and there must be an intense belief in it.

Peter Thiel: It’s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money’s worth, objectively, when you do the math. And at the same time it is something that is incredibly intensively believed; there’s this sort of psycho-social component to people … Continue reading

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The Great Contemporary Art Bubble – [VIDEO]

Ben Lewis: “Great works of art are still being made today but the great contemporary art bubble will surely go down in history as the epitome of the vanity and folly of our age.” I highly recommend you watch this … Continue reading

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In light of the upcoming “bursting” of the Cantor Exchange, Max Keiser have regrets about creating the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

Max Keiser: Joe Weisenthal drinks the Kool-Aide http://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-cantor-exchange-movie-trading-platform-works-2010-3 The CFTC really should be called to account for launching something like this – while the fire is still burning on the various CFTC approved products/contracts responsible for the last two years … Continue reading

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Nouriel Roubini on carry trade… and the anemic recovery

Doctor Gloom: Jim Rodgers on gold:

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A good part of this rise in gold prices is driven by a bubble.

Dixit Nouriel Roubini.

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How Ben Bernanke, Henry Paulson and Barney Franck ruined the US economy.

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Understanding the mechanism by which bubbles form

Experimental economics on bubbles – by Virginia Postrel Via the excellent John Salvatier and via the insightful Mike Giberson -

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