Interview on WNYC’s “The Leonard Lopate Show” about the literary origins of the financial term “bubble.” (Aug. 27, 2013)
Ben Zimmer, executive producer of Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus, and language columnist for The Wall Street Journal, discusses the use of the word “bubble” in the financial sense.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Wall Street Journal column, Word Routes column)