Monday, April 11, 2011

A tulip by any other name

Are you a tulipomanic? There's no app for that, but the condition does have a definition. According to Wikipedia, "Tulipomania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age (1619–22) during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. The term "tulip mania" is now often used metaphorically to refer to any large economic bubble." Just thought I'd share this not-exactly-world-warping insight with you.

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