Tulips are a dumb analogy. There, I said it. Tulips come from seeds and are ornamental, once they are dead they can no longer be traded for value. There is n

Tulips are a dumb analogy. There, I said it. Tulips come from seeds and are ornamental, once they are dead they can no longer be traded for value. There is no limit to the world-wide supply of tulips, and there is no such thing as distributed international observation and participation in tulips. To further my antagonist response, the Smithsonian Mag recently did a report explaining that Tulip Mania was also not really a Tulip Mania and that reports were highly exaggerated; an author of a recent book on that time claims that there really is no lesson to learn from Tulip Mania, as tempting as the comparison may be. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/?no-ist https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...