Archive - The Bubble Blog

From Bicycles to Batteries: How the EV Bubble Echoes Victorian Velocity

When the British bicycle bubble burst in 1897, it wasn't just wheels and gears that came crashing down.

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June 2025

Sky-High Startups: How St. Louis and Charles Lindbergh Launched the Spirit Before Silicon Valley

The most famous flight in history began not in a cockpit but in a pitch meeting.

Jun 27

The Dark Lady of Osaka: A Symbol of the Japanese Stock Market Bubble

Before she borrowed billions and brought down banks, Nui Onoue was just a waitress in Osaka who claimed to speak with ghosts.

Jun 20

The Roaring Twenties: How a Single Decade Re-Engineered the American Century

A decade of abrupt transition and technology for the masses

Jun 14

Before Nvidia, There Was NTT: The Original Tech Hype Train That Derailed

Long before Nvidia became the poster child of AI euphoria… there was NTT.

Jun 6

May 2025

The Great Monetary Illusion: What Locke, Newton—and Bitcoin—Reveal About Your Portfolio

The scene: London, 1696.

Published on The Global Guru • May 30

The Prairie Prometheus: The Real McCoy and the Financial Forging of the American Cattle Empire

The Prairie Prometheus: The Real McCoy and the Financial Forging of the American Cattle Empire

May 23

How a Dream Team of Nobel Geniuses Nearly Broke the Financial System

Back in the go-go '90s—when Alan Greenspan was king, dot-coms were printing millionaires, and Wall Street believed math could beat markets—there was one…

May 16

Poyais: Selling The Greatest Country That Never Was

This is the extraordinary story of the man who pulled off one of the greatest financial frauds in history

May 9

April 2025

Rubble and Rubles: How Russia Collapsed Like a House of Cards

“I’d rather eat nuclear waste than invest in Russia.”

Apr 11

March 2025

From Longhorns to London: The True Financial Story of the Wild West

Cowboys herded the cattle. British elites banked the profits.

Mar 28

From Swampy Start to Booming Behemoth: Miami's Meteoric Rise in the 1920s.

“In less than a quarter of a century, miles of rainbow-hued dwellings, bizarre estates, ornate hotels, and office buildings grew from mangrove swamp…

Mar 7

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