Christopher Wood has a track record of spotting speculative bubbles. He called the dotcom boom, Japan’s credit bubble, and ...

Generally, when you're gripped by a bubble, people just don’t want to listen because they’re making so much money,” warns ...

The Nikkei stock index rose Thursday to end above the 50,000 line, as heavyweight technology shares were bought after an ...

After three years of breakneck growth and soaring valuations, the AI industry enters 2026 with some of the euphoria giving way to tough questions. Here is a look at what is at stake: Bubble goes pop?

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index surged Thursday past the record it set in 1989 before its financial bubble burst, ushering in an era of faltering growth. The index closed Thursday at 39,098.68, up ...

Japan's economy is a potential model for how many developed markets could end up over the next decade or two. The Bank of Japan's balance sheet and money supply are enormous compared to the size of ...

In the 1990's, Japan's economy experienced what economists now refer to as "the Lost Decade", all driven by a property and ...

When a Chilean woman posted a video on Instagram of herself doing chin-ups on a sacred torii gate at a Japanese shrine, the backlash was almost immediate. For many in Japan this was just the latest ...

Though nearly a decade apart, Japan and the U.S. both experienced severe stock market and real estate bubbles. Each bubble has its own similarities, but certain structural differences also exist in ...

The yakuza boss is quoted as saying that $20,000 was all it cost to rent the space, buy the materials — cheap, dried tapioca balls and ingredients for milk tea — and get the shop up and running, ...