With Biden’s debate stumble, we all saw the emperor’s new clothes vanish in real time. But when Trump followed up weeks later babbling about people eating dogs and cats, many just shrugged. In this exchange with Bill Maher, I explain why. Maher: I agree, that happened. We all saw that debate and everybody changed their mind. Why didn't it happen when Trump debated a few weeks later and was ranting about "they're eating the dogs" and "they're eating the cats?" Because I thought that was the momen
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Harvard Business Review - Why do people pour money into hype—like crypto or meme stocks? Speculative bubbles, crypto perhaps being one of the most recent examples, are cases where people think that other people will, in the future, will want to buy in. Some of that's called the greater fool theory of investing, that you invest because you think other people will invest because they think that still other people will invest. The thing is that, of course, bubbles could pop when the market starts t
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