Bubble

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The summer-movie season of 2019 has ended with something akin to a whimper, in spite of some of the biggest possible successes amidst the dross. This year, more than most, has overwhelmed audiences with intellectual property. Intellectual property, of course,…

‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry predicted the housing crisis. Now he's calling passive investment a 'bubble.'

This time last year, I was living in a loft apartment above a working glue factory in Bushwick, sweltering in unbearable heat, wearing nothing but an oversized tropical shirt. I had moved from my hometown of Perth (Western Australia) to Brooklyn (New York) to…

MANAUS, BRAZILWidespread human-caused fires that have decimated over 1,300 square miles of Amazon rainforest in the year 2019 alone revealed a small tribe of isolated rich sociopaths who are completely untouched by consequence, sources confirmed Tuesday. As t…

Getty Images/Westend61 And to make it clear that it loves privacy now. Facebook is testing an Instagram spin-off app called Threads, the Verge’s Casey Newton reported Monday. Threads, if it ever officially launches, would be an extension of the Close Friends …

In 1991, a relatively unknown restaurant owner, Nui Onoue, was arrested and charged in what would become the single largest investment fraud case in Japanese history. Her story is one that encapsulates the absurdity of Japans 1980s bubble period, when the eco…

Media captionShannon Lenz and Tom Whitehead sailed into the "pumice raft" in early August A vast "raft" of volcanic rocks stretching over 150 sq km (93 sq miles) is drifting through the Pacific Ocean, scientists say. The sea of pumice - the size of 20,000 f…

Although iOS and Android devices are more similar now than ever, there are a few specific features that iPhone users have that Android users don’t (or vice versa). The most prevalent of these features is iMessage, the Apple-exclusive messaging app that signif…

In an advice column in a local newspaper, a woman whose husband had died eight months ago wrote to say that she dreaded the holidays. I am alone and find it difficult to be festive, she said. Am I the only one who feels that way? The advice columnist wrote…