Crashes Quotes
Many companies appear to be doing much better than they really are. Often they employ PR professionals to create that impression. Some companies are not even solvent, but the only way we can all tell is to have a recession generally or in that particular sector—the equivalent of the tide going out.
An economic bubble occurs when the investing public with little logic and facts to support it actions exhibits great enthusiasm and overvalues some kind of asset with the logic that the price is going up and someone later will pay more than I just did—sometimes called the “greater fool theory”. Historically Fama claims that there were no bubbles until there were media to whip up the irrational enthusiasm necessary for a bubble to take place. Capitalist history is full of bubbles ranging from real estate, to tulips; from silver to dot com shares. The damage is always great to the people at the end who are stuck with the object of the bubble which few people want any more. In the period before the bubble, lots of people make money contributing to the demand for the object of the bubble.
There is a standby team of experts that go to the site of any transportation accident as soon as it occurs to investigate the incident and learn what could be done better in the future to avoid similar accidents.