Before I left on this trip, I spotted a few tulips peaking through at a garden in Berkeley Square.

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After peaking through June-July 2006, home prices spiraled into free fall as the worst of a mortgage backed securities-fueled bubble exploded into a global financial crisis.

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Options volume shot through the roof, peaking at 52, 610 contracts midweek, the day the scandal broke, against 240, 506 total open interest.

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