Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Mackay - Project Gutenberg
november 2008 by aheilbut
The Mississippi scheme -- The south-sea bubble -- The tulipomania -- The alchymists -- Modern prophecies -- Fortune-telling -- The magnetisers -- Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard -- The crusades -- The witch mania -- The slow poisoners -- Haunted houses -- Popular follies of great cities -- Popular admiration of great thieves -- Duels and ordeals -- Relics.
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november 2008 by aheilbut
China Shipping Stock Sale Oversubscribed, People Say
december 2007 by aheilbut
sounds a bit frothy
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china
irrationality
december 2007 by aheilbut
Don't follow the dumb money - MSN Money
june 2007 by aheilbut
"Think Japan buying Rockefeller Center in the late 1980s."
blackstone
bubbles
june 2007 by aheilbut
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