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When Tulips Cost a House

What a market bubble is, and how the most famous one was smaller than its legend

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Wren: 26 min · Hollis: 28 min

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Your chapters

  1. Bulbs asleep

    broken tulip, scarcity, speculation

  2. A row of markers

    florist, offset, forward contract, futures contract

  3. Wine money

    college, wine money, credit, windhandel, bubble, market sentiment

  4. The empty table

    crash, default, settlement, primary source

  5. Goodnight, little Tulp

    the wind-down