tulipomania

• “What amazes me more than any spectacle of boom and bust is our capacity as a species to witness speculative bubbles inflating and bursting, or to have read about the most notorious case studies, such as tulipomania or the South Sea Bubble, and yet fail to remember the inevitable outcomes.”

  Forbes: Economic Quagmire For The U.S.

• “Embroidered in this memoir are poignant, outraged, thought-provoking observations on a sweeping range of subjects-the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer's block, social democracy, racism, tulipomania, the controlling of moles and slugs, death, and the delights of wild weather.”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “What amazes me more than any spectacle of boom-and-bust is our capacity as a species to witness speculative bubbles inflating and bursting—or, to have read about the most notorious case studies, such as tulipomania or the South Sea Bubble—and yet fail to remember the inevitable outcomes.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns

• “In the spring of 2000, when I spoke at the TED Technology, Entertainment, Design conference in California, I said that the dot-com stock prices reminded me of tulipomania.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns

• “Their bonuses may have been capped, their jets grounded, their securitized mortgages and credit default swaps unmasked as tulipomania.”

  Marty Kaplan: Solidarity for Never

• “Garage admits as much, stating "Clinton increased taxes that resulted in a 97% increase in government revenue" even though the economy was growing a healthy clip because it was in an unsustainable financial bubble like tulipomania.”

  "Mr. McCain hungers for information. He can regularly be seen reading newspapers from cover to cover..."

• “This brilliant analytical volume documenting the Mississippi scheme of 1719-1720, the English South-Sea bubble of 1711-1720 and the Dutch tulipomania of 1634-1636 are still valuable narratives for insight into the numerous financial booms and busts over time.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Another Classic Book On Historic Bubbles

• “Hunting, an industrious author of that day, who wrote a folio volume of one thousand pages upon the tulipomania, has preserved the folio wing list of the various articles, and their value, which were delivered for one single root of the rare species called the _Viceroy_: florins.”

  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

• “In Paris also the jobbers strove to create a tulipomania.”

  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

• “There were some curious incidents in the course of the tulipomania.”

  The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages

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