Examples of Bubbles and Purported Bubbles
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- Uranium bubble of 2007
- Rhodium bubble of 2008 (increase from $500/oz to $9000/oz in July 2008, then down to $1000/oz in January 2009)
- Exotic Livestock production in North America (i.e. llamas, ostriches, white tail deer, elk, wild boar, and to a lesser extent bison) and the UK (i.e. ostrich eggs, ostriches, llamas, wild boar and emu eggs).
- Higher education bubble(1980–Present), a term used by PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel and some economists to describe the steep increase of tuition and other costs at American colleges and universities, and a possible future collapse.
Other goods which have produced bubbles include postage stamps and coin collecting.
Read more about this topic: Economic Bubble
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