Technology bubbles have often concealed major frauds. From the railway boom to the Madoff affair, are there warning signs at the heart of the current AI frenzy?
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NFTs are made the same way as crypto coins, but where every crypto coin is like every other, each NFT is a unique digital item – from images to sound files to text.
Market prices are supposed to reflect a company’s fundamental value. When they no longer do, bad things can happen.
The Fed cut rates for the third time in as many months – something practically unheard of in a strong economy.
Michael Burry was right about the bubble that caused the Global Financial Crisis. He’s wrong about the next bubble being passive investment.
Nailed to the door of the London School of Economics, the ‘33 Theses’ offer a long overdue challenge to economics dogma. But there are omissions as well.
Bitcoin is being compared to tulips, but I researched tulip mania for years and found no evidence of mass bankruptcies or economic meltdown.
The record level of the price-to-earnings ratio for equities is increasingly worrying. But how do we determine whether the price of a stock – or an exchange – is valued at its fair price or overvalued?
Sociologists know what conditions make it more likely a mass delusion will take hold and spread through a group – whether adherence to a fashion fad or belief in a doomsday cult.
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Open Evidence Research, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
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Professor of Technology Governance and Development Strategies, Tallinn University of Technology
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Professor of Finance at l’ESILV et à l'EMLV, member of De Vinci Research Center, Pôle Léonard de Vinci
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Professor of Early Modern History, King's College London
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Finance; (Banking, Fintech, Corporate Governance, Intangible Assets), EM Normandie
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Research Professor of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Finance and Fred T. Tattersall Excellence in Finance Research Chair, West Virginia University
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Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University