President Trump once called cryptocurrency “a scam.” He has since done a 180 degree about-face. But he is not the only one ...

A long time ago I was bitten by the watch-collecting bug. In those days, a second-hand watch sold for 10-20% of its retail ...

Rare tulip bulbs were traded for goods and services ... It was like the gold rush, everybody wanted to get rich quick. It was a “market bubble” that took the Dutch by storm.

Economist Robert Shiller describes bubbles as social epidemics – viral stories that spread irrational optimism until reality ...

Our age is awash in speculative nonsense. From the rise and fall of NFTs to the pervasive promises of cryptocurrencies, our ...

During the great speculative tulip bulb bubble of the early 17 th century such was the hysteria and demand for tulip bulbs which could only go up in price that many punters found themselves happily ...