June
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/ 2022
Used frequently as a warning, almost, to deter people from shifting towards cryptocurrencies, particularly the Bitcoin boom, “tulipmania” is often recognized as the first recorded speculative bubble in history. Modern finance and mercantilism, just emerging around the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, during the Dutch Golden Age, experienced several speculative bubbles. Some were connected to the investor-backed voyages of various European trading companies (backed by kingdoms most of the time). The tulipmania bubble only lasted from 1634 to 1637, and in that time the price of tulips increased by over 200 times, with a single tulip bulb selling for ten times a worker’s annual wage. The Tulipmania Bubble: A Rapid Rise, A Rapid Fall The profit margins and
