It’s Not a Bubble, People; It’s a Pyramid Scheme

Mark Cuban knows a thing or two about bubbles, having profited handsomely from an earlier Internet boom. But ask him if we’re seeing Bubble 2.0 and he’ll give you a different theory. “It’s almost the 2011 version of a private equity chain letter,” says Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in 1999 for $5.7 billion and went on to buy the the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. “Remember the old chain letter, where you put up some money, then you got other people to put up some money, and you gave it to the people who were in the deal before you?...