It looks like a bubble, acts like a bubble and is falling like a bubble.
Even as it grows to massive proportions the smartest minds will argue that it only looks like a bubble.
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"Gold investments are increasingly looking like a bubble, " said Mr. Khamboj.
Indeed, given the speed of the rise in value it looks a great deal more like a bubble: something that private currencies and unregulated financial markets are prone too, as we know.
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Inflated like a bubble being blown up.
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Although it now clearly looks like a bubble, at the time, there were many who justified the prices paid for tulips by comparing their relative value to other food and commodities such as wheat, rye, swine, and cheese.
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The attendant will work up an almighty lather with an enormous sponge and squeeze it all over you - it is a bit like taking a bubble bath without the bath.
Granted it looks like there was a bubble in small loans to businesses that peaked right before the recession hit (see the figure below).
The storm started with a massive solar flare Tuesday evening and grew as it raced outward from the sun, expanding like a giant soap bubble, scientists said.
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The result is a stamp of the posts that under a microscope looks like a sheet of bubble wrap, each covered with layers of electrolyte and the cobalt oxide anode.
Simply put, debt instruments are where investment dollars are being funneled, but, while it may look like returns are growing, a bubble is being created that, like my tires, may pop at any time.
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Spain has what looks like a house-price bubble, and so does Britain and, arguably, Ireland.
Higher valuations do not mean stock prices are heading into a bubble like in 1999.
Yes, big corporate money likes a good old hard landing, the sky is falling, the housing bubble is popping like a Fourth of July gone terribly wrong, and manufacturing fleeing to build in Alabama story.
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The real estate bubble is like a popcorn popper with different markets frothing over and peaking at different times, but all will burst ultimately.
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DangDang, another Chinese stock that had its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange today, also saw its shares rise a bubble-like 87% today.
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But it is one of the most notable cases of overheating, with creeping inflation, a quickly appreciating currency, and a bubble-like behavior in its labor markets.
"Barring a few like Infosys, the hype in infotech shares is a bubble, " warns R.
Despite easy access to information, people find it comfortable to live in a bubble filled with like-minded views.
Like Diamond Dash, Bubble Island is a 60 second bubble shooting casual social game.
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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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My forecast is that when the China bubble bursts it will be like a Tsunami through the global financial world.
Benches, stools and high tables give it the relaxed feel of a bar, and playful extras like bubble-shaped lights and witty cartoon dog artwork keep it casual and fun.
Popular with baby boomers, this type of authentic, real life experience is a backlash against the bubble-like environment of all-inclusive resorts, theme parks, gaudy tourist attractions and cruises, according to the University of Illinois.
The trouble with this argument is that the Dean campaign looks ever less like a political revolution and ever more like an internet bubble.
Trying Husky Chat for the first time felt like jumping a Skip-It or unrolling a pack of Bubble Tape.
Thats what a housing bubble bursting in the US looked like and that is not what one is going to look like in China.
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But today Iran looks less like a short-term threat than it did a week ago, or a year ago, when the oil bubble began inflating.
While this was misguided, tax revenues were booming (in part because of genuine growth and in part because of the bubble) and it seemed like bigger government was a free lunch.
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We all remember the spectacular fall of companies like Pets.com, but few recall that innovative companies like Amazon (whose share prices took a terrific beating when the bubble popped) went on to beat the odds and reach share prices that beat their dot-com heights.
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