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It is well established that prices for tulip bulb contracts rose and then fell between 1636 and 1637; however, such dramatic curves do not necessarily imply that an economic or speculative bubble developed and then burst. For the then tulip market to qualify as an economic bubble, the price of bulbs would need to have been mutually agreed and ...
Jan Brueghel the Younger's A Satire of Tulip Mania (c. 1640) A card from the South Sea Bubble. The term "bubble", in reference to financial crisis, originated in the 1711–1720 British South Sea Bubble, and originally referred to the companies themselves, and their inflated stock, rather than to the crisis itself.
Kipper und Wipper (1618–22) financial crisis at the start of the Thirty Years' War; Tulip mania (1637) an economic bubble that burst, though it did not harm the economy of the Dutch Republic.
In the last 25 years alone, the market has faced the dot-com bubble burst (which became one of the longest bear markets in S&P 500 history), the Great Recession, the COVID-19 crash in 2020, and ...
Either way, I view the DeepSeek R1 sell-off as less of an AI bubble burster and more of a spark for a very healthy correction in the most overheated corners of the AI scene.
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
A bubble (1633–37) in the Dutch Republic during which contracts for bulbs of tulips reached extraordinarily high prices, and suddenly collapsed. [1] The Mississippi Bubble: 1720 Kingdom of France: Banque Royale by John Law stopped payments of its note in exchange for specie and as result caused economic collapse in France. South Sea Bubble of ...
The first volume begins with a discussion of three economic bubbles, or financial manias: the South Sea Company bubble of 1711–1720, the Mississippi Company bubble of 1719–1720, and the Dutch tulip mania of the early seventeenth century.