Here’s wishes for a 
Happy New Year my infrequent readers, and the hope that you had a peaceful and joyous Holiday Season.
Now that (most of you) have recovered from your Seasonal Cold Influenza Hangover, did you know the average bottle of Champagne, once opened, can produce between 49 and 250 million bubbles?
While many of those bubbles are released when the pressure inside the bottle – as high as 90 pounds per square inch* – is improperly uncorked, the real pleasure is enjoying the bubbles in your glass: The way they tickle your nose, excite the palate, and dance up the sides of the glass to create an intoxicating pattern of carbon dioxide effervescence on the surface.
So, as you embark on a new year, I hope you took pause during your New Year’s revelry to reflect on all those microscopic bubbles rising up from your flute or coupe to break free, and enjoyed them as best you can: Because if any of the following recent predictions come true, you’ve already experienced the best bubbles of 2014.
- “When will the Bitcoin bubble burst this time?”
- “Stock Bubble Driven by Central Banks to Burst in 2014, Analyst Warn”
- “India’s real estate market: Time for the bubble to burst?”
- “The Craft Beer Market Has Exploded, And Now Brewers Are Worried About A Collapse”
- “When will the Shale Bubble Burst?”
- “Editorial: EDM’s Bubble Will Soon Burst”
- “Will China’s real estate bubble burst?”
- “Three Reasons Why College Bubble Will Burst”
- “Has the Catholic Bubble in Chicago Finally Burst?”
- “Did the College Textbook Bubble Burst?”
- “Imminent peak oil could burst US, global economic bubble – study”
- “Will Tech Valuations Burst Like the Dot-Com Bubble?”
- “Obama’s ‘bubble’ about to burst wide open?”
- “Will the farmland bubble burst?”
- “Will Gulf Airline Bubble Burst?”
- “Subprime Auto Loans: The Next Bubble to Burst?”
- “Will the Facebook Bubble Burst In 2014?”
- “New Book Warns MBA Bubble is about to Burst”
*FYI: An overpressure of 5 pounds per square inch is enough to completely destroy most buildings (link). Oh, and does a liberated champagne cork moving at 60 mph qualify the bottle as an “assault weapon”?
Thanks for reading! (and, good luck in 2014!)
