Bubble passes Uranus

Thursday 28 May 2026

I admit it, I just wanted to write the word Uranus.

When Johann Elert Bode suggested the name for the seventh planet, he could not have known that he had created the greatest running joke for the next 250 years.

Anyway, the bubble is hurtling through space, without reference to Earth, and might as well be passing your anus.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.