Bubble

15 entries

Tulip Mania

BubbleEconomic1637

A speculative bubble in Dutch tulip bulb prices that collapsed in February 1637. At its peak, single...

South Sea Bubble

BubbleEconomic1720

A British stock bubble centered on the South Sea Company, granted a monopoly on trade with South Ame...

Mississippi Bubble

BubbleEconomic1720

A financial bubble in France engineered by John Law, a Scottish financier. Laws Mississippi Company ...

Dot-com Bubble

BubbleEconomic2000

A speculative bubble in internet and technology stocks from 1995 to 2000. The NASDAQ rose 400 percen...

Railway Mania

BubbleEconomic1840

A speculative bubble in British railway shares in the 1840s. Parliament authorized 8,000 miles of ne...

Florida Land Boom

BubbleEconomic1925

A real estate bubble in Florida in the 1920s. Land that sold for 800 per acre was flipped for 20,000...

Japanese Asset Bubble

BubbleEconomic1989

One of the largest asset bubbles in history. Japanese real estate and stock prices reached extraordi...

Mississippi Land Fever

BubbleEconomic1817

A land speculation frenzy in the Mississippi Territory and Alabama in the early 1800s. Settlers and ...

Canal Boom

BubbleEconomic1820

A speculative frenzy in American canal companies in the 1820s. The success of the Erie Canal, comple...

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies

BubbleEconomic2020

SPACs, or blank check companies, raised a record 83 billion in 2020 and 162 billion in 2021. SPACs g...

Poseidon Nickel Bubble

BubbleEconomic1969

The Poseidon bubble was an Australian stock bubble centered on Poseidon NL, a nickel mining company....

Kuwait Souk al-Manakh

BubbleEconomic1982

The Souk al-Manakh stock market in Kuwait was an unregulated over the counter market for Gulf shares...

Chinese Warrants Bubble

BubbleEconomic2007

In 2005 to 2008, China launched put warrants on stocks that became speculative manias. Retail invest...

1920s Florida Land Speculation

BubbleEconomic1924

The Florida land boom of the 1920s was one of the first modern real estate bubbles. Promoters sold u...

2008 Housing Bubble

BubbleEconomic2006

The US housing bubble from 2000 to 2006 saw home prices rise 85 percent nationally. In some markets ...