POP THAT BUBBLE!

The most famous line about market madness is credited to Isaac Newton. Nobody can find where he said it.

That is the problem with most of what you hear about bubbles. The tulip story, the Newton story, the "this is just like 1999" comparison: get repeated with total confidence, usually by someone selling either the technology or the warning. And if you own an index fund or a pension, you are being told right now that AI is either the future of everything or the biggest bubble in history. Sometimes by the same person in the same week.

Pop That Bubble goes back to the original documents and gives you the version that survives. Only eight of the thirty-seven famous claims it checks come back confirmed.

You will learn to:

• Tell a bubble's real story from its legend
• Spot the borrowed money that decides how much damage a crash does
• Decode the numbers companies use when the story needs to sound bigger
• Separate a technology that works from a price that makes sense
• Check any statistic yourself in five minutes

The cases run from Dutch tulips to the 2008 housing crash, then reach the present, with every number dated.

There is no fund manager or former trader behind this book. The credential is the method: find the earliest source, put a date on every number, and say so when the sources disagree.

So when someone tells you this time is different, what exactly is different?