Tulip Mania

This was the first big bubble circa 1636. Then England got caught out first by a fast talking Scotchman using the South Sea Bubble around 1720. Then it was the French with the Mississippi Company in 1763. We are currently [ 2011 ] going through the aftermath of a housing bubble which happened in English speaking countries. 

"The effects of the tulip craze left the Dutch very hesitant about speculative investments for quite some time. Investors now can know that it is better to ..."
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"The Greatest Market Crashes - From a tulip craze to a dotcom bubble, read the cautionary tales of the stock market's greatest disasters. ..."
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"A tulip, known as "the Viceroy", displayed in a 1637 Dutch catalog. Its bulb cost between 3000 and 4200 florins depending on size. ..."
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"Brief and Straightforward Guide: What is a Tulip Craze?"
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"13 Feb 2008 ... One of the most bizarre examples of speculative activities in the pre-Industrial world occurred in the Netherlands in 1636 when a tulip ..."
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"The seeds of this craze were planted in 1593. A man by the name of Conrad Guestner imported the first tulip bulb into Holland from Constantinople, ..."
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"In the course of ten or eleven years after this period, tulips were much sought after by ... Until the year 1634 the tulip annually increased in reputation, ..."
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"In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of ..."
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"The craze reached its height in Holland during 1633–37. Before 1633 Holland’s tulip trade had been restricted to professional growers and experts, ..."
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"9 Jul 2004 ... THEATER REVIEW; A Tulip Craze, Dutch Ghosts And Geneticists, ... novel about a 17th-century Dutch financial bubble swelled by a tulip craze. ..."
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"The visitor bought a good supply of tulips and went his way. ... and before long New York had a first-class tulip craze, almost equal in intensity to the ..."
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"By the 1630s, the tulip-growing frenzy grew into the Dutch Tulip craze or the tulip-mania. A single tulip bulb sometimes cost a whopping 4500 guilders (the ..."
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1094178.cms

"Since the mid 1600's, tulips have come to symbolize economic bubbles. Excess demand for the floral beauties led Dutchmen to pay a hefty price, resulting in ..."
www.pensionriskmatters.com/2007/06/articles/valuation/tulip-craze-redux-and-what-models-mean-to-pensions/

"TULIP CRAZE PARALLEL TO TODAY'S MARKET?(Business) ...find Rocky Mountain News ( Denver, CO) articles. Byline: Fred Joseph Recently, I purchased some tulip ..."
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"Many items of popular culture follow the same trajectory as the tulip craze, although on a smaller scale. Baseball cards, for example, went through a period ..."
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"3 Oct 2008 ... Among those - from humble artisans to nobility - who had been caught up in the tulip craze, many were ruined, reduced to bankruptcy by ..."
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"Hey there, i was wondering, i know what the Dutch Tulip Craze was but i want to know why did it happen??? ?"
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"The “Tulip” Revolution Craze Is Ending. Saturday, March 26th, 2005 in politics by Daniel Larison. The mood on Kyrgyzstan’s streets has swung from jubilation ..."
larison.org/2005/03/26/the-tulip-revolution-craze-is-ending/

"29 May 2008 ... and, in fact, the supposed crash of the Dutch tulip industry was more a ... Dutch tulip prices would have had to find their equilibrium: The ..."
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"16 Jul 2004 ... Bulb Bubble TroubleThat Dutch tulip bubble wasn't so crazy after all. ... Tulip- bulb investors were neither mad nor delusional in 1636 and ..."
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