What is a financial bubble?
Million Bazillion
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re talking about bubbles. Not the kind you play with. The kind that happen in the economy! Bridget and Ryan take a trip down memory lane to answer Jocelin’s question about what caused the 2008 housing bubble. With help from Bridget’s unforgettable treehouse bubble tale, we’ll learn what can happen when prices rise too high, too fast and the bubble finally pops! Plus, why it’s so tricky to spot a bubble before it bursts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, bazillionaires. This episode of Million Bazillion is presented in partnership with Greenlight, |
| 0:07.3 | the debit card and money app for kids and teens. Today, Bridget and Ryan are looking into |
| 0:13.0 | bubbles, but not the kind you blow with your bubble gum. They're talking about the economic kind, |
| 0:19.9 | the ones that can make grownups scratch their heads. |
| 0:23.5 | With Greenlight, kids can track their own spending, savings, and investing with parental approval, to build smarter financial thinking early. |
| 0:33.0 | Help them start building strong financial instincts with Greenlight. |
| 0:37.3 | Sign up at Greenlight.com |
| 0:39.0 | slash million. That's greenlight.com slash million. |
| 0:48.2 | Hey Ryan, are you ready for our big presentation to the fifth grade class today? Yeah, I'm just |
| 0:53.3 | organizing my notes here. |
| 0:55.4 | And look, to entertain and thrill the kids, I brought along an old classic. |
| 1:00.6 | A bottle of bubbles. |
| 1:04.6 | See? |
| 1:06.4 | Bubbles. |
| 1:07.2 | Woo! |
| 1:07.5 | We love bubbles. |
| 1:09.4 | Not to be rude, but I don't think today's 10-year-olds are going to be impressed by bubbles you blow from a little plastic wand. |
| 1:16.6 | You gotta go bigger, like this bubble blaster. |
| 1:19.6 | This thing can blast 70 bubbles a second. |
| 1:23.6 | Oh, wow. Cool, yeah. But that's not as cool as this industrial strength bubble generator I also brought along today. |
| 1:36.7 | This is the same machine they use for Broadway shows that take place underwater like SpongeBob and Chicago. |
| 1:46.0 | Oh, that's neat, yeah, yeah. |
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