Discover what the South Sea Bubble reveals about today’s AI boom, investor psychology, and how timeless lessons from history can guide smarter decisions now.

NEW YORK — The decade started with such promise. Investors began 2000 having enjoyed four years of amazing stock-market gains, fueled by the rise of the Internet and explosive growth in technology.

One of my central propositions in Coming Apart, a book I published in 2012, was that a high-IQ, highly educated new upper class has formed over the last half century. It has a culture of its own that ...

The deflation of the housing and mortgage bubble should reinforce several lessons for investors and their advisers. First, if it looks like a bubble and if you hear the phrase, “This time it’s ...

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Frank G. Zarb, former chief executive of Nasdaq, is non-executive chairman of Promontory Financial Group. Anoop Rai is a professor of finance at Hofstra University and director of the Center for ...

Watch the Video Lee and I rewound the clock about 25 years, back to the height of the dot-com boom. At that time, Cisco was one of the hottest stocks on the planet, sitting at the center of the ...

We're off and running in our quest to take a toddler to Broadway. The goal: A March production of Disney's "The Lion King" in order to take advantage of the offer to buy a regular-priced ticket and ...

I continue my exploration of the scores for the bubble quiz that have been registered on the NewsHour website, now numbering more than 50,000. If you want your child to grow up clueless about ...