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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
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Permalink Reply by The Bull on September 7, 2016 at 7:45pm

Lapses, relapses and collapses

As Canada Free Press columnist Marc Patrone noted in his August 28, 2016 column:

“Just this week, the Politico quoted Clinton insiders as saying “they can ride out” the latest email and Clinton Foundation controversy by running out the clock until the election. They see the poll numbers and have decided it’s over. All she has to do is stay under the radar as much as possible, make no mistakes, and let her media PR department destroy Trump.”

The big question is: if Clinton has had health problems so bad that she has had memory lapses, relapses and collapses since her 2012 concussion following that fateful fall in her home, why is it that people being asked to vote for her were not made aware of her health problems until four years later?

For almost eight long years, the same president for whom she covered while Secretary of State in the Benghazi scandal, has worked on the ‘Fundamental Destruction of America’, calling it a “Fundamental Transformation”.

Obama’s final fatal death blow on Americans is hiding his infamous-for-her-lies replacement until she’s guaranteed to be in place to carry on his 3rd term after November 8.

Tear down the lies by turning your back on the continuation of Barack Obama’s Third Term in office. Turn your back on all attempts at the ‘Fundamental Destruction of America’, including the pious #NeverTrumpers helping to make it happen.

Spit out the propaganda the mainstream media feeds folk—and never let it back in again.

Pull your head out of the sand and quit obsessing the insignificant details the media doles out like pablum, choosing instead to deal with the here and now.

Put your worries about Donald Trump “not saying things the right way” aside. This is an election with the future of your children and grandchildren hanging in the balance.

Cut straight through the ‘Wall of Lies’ and make Truth matter again in America. Donald Trump is the truth.

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Permalink Reply by The Bull on September 7, 2016 at 8:42pm

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Permalink Reply by Hankelvis on September 8, 2016 at 7:03am

Unions put Bill Clinton in office now Hillary is riding around in a stronger together Union plane. Unions are behind every problem we have in America today. From Airline bailouts to sanctuary cities to immigration they create one scheme after another to create pools of money to pilfer from. Now they're going to get 2 billion dollars for zika virus which is about 1.5 billion more than they need. They also added language to the bill that is anti-American. Anyway the unions are an international organization with over 5 trillion dollars in assets and they want to keep their organized crime regime going. They are behind Hillary Clinton who is just a front man for her husband Bill Clinton. We should be scared as hell. IMHO, Jack is here as their representative.

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Permalink Reply by kevin kiernan on September 8, 2016 at 7:30am

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