PORTLAND, Ore. — Statistically speaking, size doesn’t matter when a financial bubble bursts.
The big crashes may hurt a lot more, but new analyses of “microbubbles” presented March 15 at a meeting of the American Physical Society find that the same mathematical laws underlying massive economic crises are also at work in tiny fluctuations that occur on the order of milliseconds.
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