burst the bubble

“I didn’t want to burst the bubble,” Spielberg told Vulture, adding that Drew would have lunch with E.T. and tell the alien her secrets.

A jump in rates has been blamed for helping to burst the bubble in technology stocks in the early 2000s, and for contributing to the decline in house prices that helped to set off the massive crash in 2008.

The numbers “look set to inevitably burst the bubble on Fed pivot bets” because they “suggest a re-acceleration in wage pressures,” said Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank in a report.

After years of exuberant growth and hiring, layoffs have burst the bubble of Big Tech inviolability.

The pandemic “burst the bubble of believing we had any control over what was coming,” Ms. Ross said.