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For the then tulip market to qualify as an economic bubble, the price of bulbs would need to have been mutually agreed and surpassed the intrinsic value of the bulbs. Modern economists have advanced several possible reasons for why the rise and fall in prices may not have constituted a bubble, even though a Viceroy Tulip was worth upwards of ...
English: Tulip price index from 1636-1637. The values of this index were compiled by Earl A. Thompson in Thompson, Earl (2007), "The tulipmania: ...
Economic or asset price bubbles are often characterized by one or more of the following: Unusual changes in single measures, or relationships among measures (e.g., ratios) relative to their historical levels. For example, in the housing bubble of the 2000s, the housing prices were unusually high relative to income. [37]
The most iconic -- and most ridiculous -- bubble the world has ever seen peaked on Feb. 3. It wasn't the dot-com bubble, the housing boom, the social-media bubble, or even the frenzy over
Other classic examples of bubbles include the 17th century Dutch tulip mania, Japan’s real estate and stock bubble in the 1980s, the 18th century South Sea bubble and the U.S. stock market of ...
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A stock market bubble is a type of economic bubble taking place in stock markets when market participants drive stock prices above their value in relation to some system of stock valuation. Behavioral finance theory attributes stock market bubbles to cognitive biases that lead to groupthink and herd behavior .
All the classic signs of extreme prices, valuations, and sentiment suggest the end is near.” This is America’s ‘fatal flaw’ as the U.S. bubble gets ready to pop, market expert warns Skip ...