This article originally appeared on Dean Baker’s Patreon. It is reprinted here with permission. A bit less than 20 years ago, a nationwide housing bubble collapsed, giving us the Great Recession.

Broadly speaking, there are five different phases to an investment bubble. Using artificial intelligence as the example here, displacement was when the new technology came on the scene. The boom has ...

In industrial plants around the world, tiny bubbles cause big problems. Bubbles clog filters, disrupt chemical reactions, reduce throughput during biomanufacturing, and can even cause overheating in ...

On Wednesday evening, Nvidia, the chip firm at the center of the world, reported its quarterly earnings. It was by any measure a blowout for the world’s largest company: It made 65 percent more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jason Alan Snyder is a technologist covering AI and innovation. The AI “bubble” narrative persists because people are diagnosing ...