You also can put the stuff under your doorway to deter break-ins (the Bubble Wrap burglar alarm) or stuff it in your bra (the Bubble Wrap boob job) or sleep on it (the Bubble Wrap bed).
Yet the reality, increasingly, is that they can't and don't leave the bubble -- the bubble moves right along with them, except that it is no longer merely a bubble, it is a heavily fortified multiple-city-block mobile bunker.
"We had a very high multiple and you called it a bubble, " says Son.
It also bubble up old photos and documents that are buried deep in your inbox.
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The more viscous lava is, the harder it is for gases within it to bubble out.
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Carriers collect money for additional usage and split it with Bubble Motion.
While it is difficult to estimate how much of an impact this trend has had on the first-quarter trade balance, it is an important trend to watch since it suggests bubble activity.
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But he declines to call it a bubble.
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During the last dot-com bubble, you kind of knew in your gut it was a bubble when Hollywood types like Barbra Streisand starting investing.
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It has developed a method to extract carbon dioxide from industrial emissions and bubble it through seawater to create calcium carbonate, a process that mimics the buildup of coral.
If there is such a thing as a happiness bubble, it is a much tougher, resilient bubble than the stock and real estate ones that have burst recently.
If it were a real bubble, surely the Fed would have popped it by know.
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Why there was so much money to be made, why the game went on as long as it did, and the bubble got as big as it did, is the subject of another post.
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Largely unaffected by the technology bubble, it remains to be seen whether Australia can weather a property bubble.
In just the same way, if we reside within a bubble, it is guaranteed to encounter many others, and inter-bubble collisions just may impact our observiball.
It was a bubble that enabled governments to borrow cheaply - even Greece was paying interest rates almost as low as Germany.
Today a number of experts have recognized that we are living in the midst of a century-plus-long period of irrational exuberance I like to call it the Carbon Bubble.
It was a bubble aggravated by trade barriers.
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Yet by holding interest rates low it may be fuelling an asset bubble, which when it bursts could make deflation even more likely since there is much less room for fiscal and monetary stimulus than after the bursting of the previous one.
Indeed, it is possible to find entirely respectable economists (Robert Shiller for example) arguing that it was the lack of options and futures markets in housing that failed to prick the US housing bubble before it blew.
Unfortunately, it's not the tech bubble year of 1996 -- it's the recession plagued start to 2009.
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It looks like once again the Fed will be dangerously behind the curve on a bubble, as it was in the stock market and housing bubbles.
In other words, Mr Mishkin suggests the Fed should cut interest rates before a deflating housing bubble affects the real economy, even though it resisted acting before an inflating bubble created dangerous economic distortions.
While in the December 1998 11434 was broken as the Dow made its way up the dot-com bubble, in September 2008 it was broken as it was about to tumble down the busted housing bubble.
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It caught the Nasdaq bubble just right, and expanded rapidly from England to dozens of countries.
Congress passes legislation that returns the market to the stability it had before the bubble.
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It looks like a bubble, acts like a bubble and is falling like a bubble.
It is just another bubble waiting to burst, much like the housing bubble in the US in 2007.
But students also must realize that this isn't the first speculative bubble and it won't be the last.
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