Traders having made their bundle, oil drops 9% in 4 days, dollar rebounds a little

[mattkime]

pretty filmsy concept. its entirely based on the rate of growth (numbers and not on any transaction pattern. a bubble isn't truly a bubble until it pops - otherwise its simply a sharp increase in the value of a particular good.

i think its a good idea to compare it to the housing bubble. speculation certainly fueled the housing bubble but those very same speculators (which includes many joe-average americans) ultimately lost big time.

housing prices are now cheaper than they were before the bubble. should we expect the same once the gas bubble bursts?