by Henry Oliner | Aug 23, 2017 | Politics
from the Scott Adams Blog, How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble A mass hysteria happens when the public gets a wrong idea about something that has strong emotional content and it triggers cognitive dissonance that is often supported by confirmation bias. In...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 22, 2016 | Democrats, Politics
From Jonah Goldberg in National Review, Bursting ‘Beltway Bubbles’: If all you heard in his answer was the box-checking boilerplate and not the needy cries of his id, then you’re in a bubble. If all you saw at the Al Smith Dinner was a man speaking truth...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 23, 2009 | Business, Economics, Politics
“When businesspeople and senior executives do a bad job they are -eventually at any rate- thrown out on their ear. As Fed Governor, Ben Bernanke convinced his colleagues to pump up an inflationary bubble to avoid a crisis; as U.S housing secretary Andrew Cuomo...
