You know the housing bubble, the dot-com bubble and perhaps the tulip bubble.

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Everyone was doing it and, just like the tulip bubble centuries before, you needed to get with the program and play the game or be left out.

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Hundreds of years ago, a book was written about the various bubbles through time: think alchemy, turning lead into gold, the South Sea Island bubble, and my particular favorite, the Tulip Bubble.

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Historical records going back to at least the 17th century Dutch tulip bulb bubble show the fallacy of such a strategy.

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As in other books of this genre, much space is devoted to nine bubbles, scams and manias, from the Dutch tulip speculation of the 1630s to the Japanese bubble of the 1980s.

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The Busang affair was not, first of all, a speculative frenzy such as the Dutch tulip mania of the 17th century or the South Sea Bubble of the 18th.

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At the peak of the bubble, some paid 10 times the annual income of a craftsman for a tulip bulb.

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She was more cautious in the bubble years than many recall--for instance, comparing the period to the 17th-century Dutch tulip-bulb mania in a 1999 New Yorker piece.

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