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Tulip Mania- The World’s First Financial Bubble?

Tulip Mania- The World’s First Financial Bubble?

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I love business stories from any time- as long as it’s full of
drama, success or failure, interesting characters, I don’t care
if it a year old or 1000 years old, and the Tulip Bubble from the
1700’s has drama in spades- I’ve always wanted to dig into it
because tulipmania is remembered as the first market bubble. I
mean picture the scene, january of 1637, in taverns across
Holland, fortunes were made and lost on flowers that bloomed for
just one week a year. Men traded houses, farms, for a single
bulb. The story has been told for centuries as the world’s first
great financial bubble—the madness of crowds overtaken by
financial speculation. It’s a tale of greed, folly, and overnight
collapse.

But there’s a twist in this tale and who doesn’t love a good old
twist?

It’s a cracking story—enjoy.