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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;areich, post: 1534829, member: 37479&quot;]I&#039;m not sure how you can consider that the tulip madness wasn&#039;t a bubble.&nbsp; People traded their entire livestock and homes for a single bulb to such detriment to the actual economy (trade&nbsp; and manufacturing) that the government had little choice but to intervene when ship building and public safety was threatened.&nbsp; The main driving force was futures contracts, which the government annulled, causing the end of&nbsp; the bubble. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW - the strange varieties were due to a virus and could not be reproduced by conventional means.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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