Tulipomania!

A little bit of history….. The demand for tulips of a rare species increased so much in the year 1636, that regular marts for their sale were established on the Stock Exchange of Amsterdam, in Rotterdam, Harlaem, Leyden, Alkmar, Hoorn, and other towns … The tulip-jobbers speculated in the rise and fall of the tulip…

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Nui Onoue

A few weeks ago I wrote a piece looking at Japan’s extraordinary asset bubble of the 1980s. Such bubbles always throw up some odd players. Locally we had a handful of corporate titans strutting around. Many of whom ended up broke, in jail, or both. Whilst looking up some material for the piece I came…

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