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From tulips and scrips to bitcoin and meme stocks – how the act of speculating became a financial mania

  • Written by Gayle Rogers, Professor and chair of English, University of Pittsburgh
From tulips and scrips to bitcoin and meme stocks – how the act of speculating became a financial maniaFinancial bubbles are frequently depicted as manias. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

In the late 1990s, America experienced a dot-com mania. In the 2000s, the housing market went wild.

Today, there are manias in everything from bitcoin and nonfungible tokens to SPACs and meme stocks – obscure corners of the market that are...

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