From the earliest days of RealClearMarkets (2007), your editor has tried to banish the word “bubble” from all titles in the center column. The effort wasn’t completely successful since the meaningless adjective was popular among other editors, but persistent persuasion ultimately paid off. For the most part readers haven’t had to suffer an empty descriptor for the near twenty years that RealClearMarkets (RCM) has existed.
What was true about “bubble” and its meaninglessness remains true today. What never made sense can’t later be revived as sensible. Bubble is ludicrous, the stuff of attention and click-seekers eager to attract readers in the way that “Paul Krugman is confused,” "the coming crash," “surefire cure for balding,” and a few other catchy title insertions invariably do.
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