Bubble
15 entries
Tulip Mania
A speculative bubble in Dutch tulip bulb prices that collapsed in February 1637. At its peak, single...
South Sea Bubble
A British stock bubble centered on the South Sea Company, granted a monopoly on trade with South Ame...
Mississippi Bubble
A financial bubble in France engineered by John Law, a Scottish financier. Laws Mississippi Company ...
Dot-com Bubble
A speculative bubble in internet and technology stocks from 1995 to 2000. The NASDAQ rose 400 percen...
Railway Mania
A speculative bubble in British railway shares in the 1840s. Parliament authorized 8,000 miles of ne...
Florida Land Boom
A real estate bubble in Florida in the 1920s. Land that sold for 800 per acre was flipped for 20,000...
Japanese Asset Bubble
One of the largest asset bubbles in history. Japanese real estate and stock prices reached extraordi...
Mississippi Land Fever
A land speculation frenzy in the Mississippi Territory and Alabama in the early 1800s. Settlers and ...
Canal Boom
A speculative frenzy in American canal companies in the 1820s. The success of the Erie Canal, comple...
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies
SPACs, or blank check companies, raised a record 83 billion in 2020 and 162 billion in 2021. SPACs g...
Poseidon Nickel Bubble
The Poseidon bubble was an Australian stock bubble centered on Poseidon NL, a nickel mining company....
Kuwait Souk al-Manakh
The Souk al-Manakh stock market in Kuwait was an unregulated over the counter market for Gulf shares...
Chinese Warrants Bubble
In 2005 to 2008, China launched put warrants on stocks that became speculative manias. Retail invest...
1920s Florida Land Speculation
The Florida land boom of the 1920s was one of the first modern real estate bubbles. Promoters sold u...
2008 Housing Bubble
The US housing bubble from 2000 to 2006 saw home prices rise 85 percent nationally. In some markets ...