The ricocheting greenback has been devastating, both in enabling the housing bubble to reach its obscene size and in inhibiting business investment.

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Shocks are still likely: for instance, the size of the bubble and scale of the bust may overturn historic relationships such as that between unemployment rates and credit-card losses.

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The size of the gold ETF screams bubble because it indicates that everybody and their dog have bet all on gold.

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The HitClips product line centers on thumbnail-size microchips containing prerecorded music samples, mostly bubble-gummy singles by such teenybopper chart-toppers as Sugar Ray and Christina Aguilera.

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Whether YC and others will reduce their size remains to be seen, but if there was an accelerator bubble, it looks like correction time.

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The market bubble of the 1990s and the dot-com-driven war for talent accelerated increases in the size of option grants.

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