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What is a Bubble? In markets and economic cycles, any kind of rapid run up trend characterized by over exuberance and emotion over fundamentals that is followed by a collapse and subsequent contraction is called a bubble. The analogy is not unlike that of a soap bubble: it expands rapidly and its fragility inevitably leads to the bubble bursting when it gets too large.

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Finance allah shmoop what is ah bubble All right well
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this is a bubble See what happened there got bigger
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and bigger and bigger And then it popped and here's
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the stock market from about nineteen Ninety two until about
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two thousand It got bigger and bigger and bigger And

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then it popped And yet was a bubble not just
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a big fat bull market It was a crazy ludicrous
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tulip mania Kind of time like start ups with almost
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no revenues trading and billions of dollars Yep And tulip
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mania That was a really thing One tulip sold for
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forty grand go figure wasn't like if you ate it
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you lived forever So yeah it was a bubble So
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what caused the ninety nine bubble Well greed and it
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wasn't good At least for some The internet had come
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along It was a new thing consumers by the millions
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could download in the privacy of their homes Art films
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Yeah That's what we'll call them art films by the
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terabyte money was flowing from silicon valley investors into startups
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at record pace hoping to take advantage of this new
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amazing internet thing and the valuations of companies got higher
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And higher and higher Nasdaq went up some four hundred
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percent in just half a dozen years and the blessed
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cos traded at one hundred times trailing revenue not earnings
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but revenue So if you think about the idea that
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if you invest a dollar and you want to get
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more than that back and that dollar comes from profits
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of companies than one hundred times revenues cos we're probably
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something like five hundred times earnings or more So for
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one hundred dollars oven investment you've got like a dollar
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of revenues in twenty cents of potential earnings Like maybe
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a a decade later maybe yeah that's a bubble and
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it burst At least you don't have that danger with
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actual tulips or bitcoins Yeah they take bitcoins when you
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buy tulips Would be kind of a good marriage there
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