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The Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637
The later part of the 20th century saw its share of odd financial bubbles. There was the real-estate bubble, the stock market bubbles, and the dot com bubble, just to name a few. In each instance of price inflation people paid exorbitant amounts for things that shouldn’t have been worth anything like the going price. And each time people stood around afterwards and said “What were we thinking?”

One has to believe that the same thought occurred to the Dutch in the 17th century when they settled down after their bout with tulipomania, wherein the humble tulip bulb began to sell for prices to make New York Realtors blanch.

As much as the tulip is associated with Holland, it is not native there. Rather it was introduced in 1593 by a botanist named Carolus Clusius, who brought it from Constantinople. He planted a small garden, intending to research the plant for medicinal purposes. Had Clusius’s neighbors been morally upright, the tulip might still be a rare exotic in the gardening world. Instead they broke into his garden and stole some of his bulbs in order to make some quick money, and in the process started the Dutch bulb trade
http://www.damninteresting.com/the-dutch-tulip-bubble-of-1637/
Just sayin!

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Permalink Reply by Hankelvis on January 23, 2017 at 11:35am

Thanks, good stuff.
I like the look on Billary's face too.

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Permalink Reply by Hankelvis on January 23, 2017 at 1:58pm

CNN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1465942/posts

Ever wonder why CNN and Time are so blatantly pro-islamic. Ever wonder why these weasels want are tooo eager to toe liberal / islamic propaganda??
A good chunk of AOL Time Warner is owned by Prince Alwaleed Ibn Talal the Saudi billionaire. It is well known that Prince AlWaleed is a front for the Saudi royal family. All of the oil money that is swindled from Aramco the Saudi oil company is "invested" by Prince Al Waleed and his company.
More http://www.saudia-online.com/NewsMar02/news06.shtml

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Permalink Reply by Rhodes on January 23, 2017 at 9:16pm

Haven't wondered for years but I guess it's good to remind. They aint alone either, keep that in mind while watching Fox.

Foreign ownership of media was once severely restricted, it must be again or face the reality of an entire mass media hostile to the USA not necessarily to the US. Forget the internet it is being lost as we stand, FB and Google aint our friends. Indeed the entirety of the net is on a switch now, though untested it may be.
HAM aint just a prep food.

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Permalink Reply by M on January 24, 2017 at 11:56am

Rhodes,

What Obama Did on his own, Trump can reverse on his own including cancelling over 200 Executive orders. Actually Trump can legally and politically cancel every Executive order all the way back to G. Washingtons first one if he so desired. Executive orders only stand as long as the seated President and need to be renewed by the incoming President to remain on the books.