Reply With QuoteThe trolling industry.
In the 90's it was the dot com boom. The early to mid 2000's was real estate. What are we going to fuck up next?
The trolling industry.
Insurance.
Pension Funds
Nanotech / biotech bubble to burst in 2017...
Housing prices went crazy because everyone viewed houses as a "safe" investment. If people are really spooked, maybe they will try to buy lots and lots of gold (the ultimate "safe" investment). This will provoke a sharp rise in the price of gold and thus bring more people running to gold. Eventually the economy recovers, then someone will say "Hey, is this stuff *really* that useful? All it does is sit around in bank vaults." and the gold market will crash.
Or I could be completely wrong.
Aliens will show up and offer us better versions of all the products we already use in exchange for very little money, running most major Earth-based corps out of business.
See? Troll values are already quite inflated.Originally Posted by bahimiron
Begging the Federal Government for money.
My response wasn't really much of a troll response. It was just a non-serious response. Rather like your own.
We're leveraging.
There'll be a speculation-fueled boom in meth labs once the nuclear bombs stop falling; the theory being that it'll be a safe way for surviving cannibal warlords to keep their mutant armies loyal. When that bubble pops, it's going to ruin the livelihoods of quite a few cannibal warlords.
Commodities have already had their bubble. Are you suggesting another, larger commodities bubble?
Shotguns.
V8 Interceptors with armored chassis and built-in machine guns.
That's one hell of a vegetable juice!
Chinese.
I thought the commodities bubble was driven by predictions of a lack of resources in a rapidly-expanding world economy. That is, price went up for all sorts of things that you actually need to run an economy.
The picture of a rapidly-expanding world economy is uh, rapidly evaporating, so that's gone. However, if people with a lot of money start to worry about investing in any sort of productive enterpise (because it's not 'safe' enough), they may feel compelled to invest in 'real money' -- gold. I'm pretty skeptical about the inherent value of gold, but it does have that reputation.
Of course, if a lot of people invest in gold, the price goes up. So then people see an investment that's rapidly appreciating and 'safe' and 'real', raising the price of gold further and making it actually less safe. It would be pretty stupid overall, but not less stupid than the idea that housing prices can never fall.
PC gaming.
After a successful Obama full term presidency or two the blacks will be inspired and will finally reach a social status similar to whites. However, all the young Hispanic children legally born in the US will aspire to do better than their parents and go to college. Except their dads all work construction and their moms are all maids, so they have to apply for student loans.
Except that, while well intentioned, many won't be able to pay back their student loans sufficiently, causing the world to explode.
Or so my grandfather said while polishing his Winchester.
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And the USA can finally retire the "n" word.
Plastics
Alternative Energy
the environment.
This, plus quantum computing, which is sort of related to nanotech.
The nice thing about the quantum computing bubble is that it will both pop and not pop simultaneously, as long as no one looks at it.
1970's David Bowie.
"And in the Death, as the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy thoroughfare..."
They've also cured all disease, and now they're letting us take rides back to their home planet. They left this book though...
I am thinking healthcare.
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