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Comment author: fubarobfusco 07 October 2014 05:51:44AM 2 points [-]

At least some recent research suggests that the Dutch tulip bubble was in fact a tulip contracts bubble, which expanded when legal changes converted commodity futures contracts to options and collapsed when authorities halted trading.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 October 2014 01:46:12PM 5 points [-]

Is there an important difference between a tulip contracts bubble and a tulip bubble?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 08 October 2014 12:50:36AM 3 points [-]

Sure, there's the question of whether any actual tulip bulbs were exchanged.

Comment author: VAuroch 07 October 2014 10:29:02PM 0 points [-]

My understanding was that it started as a minor bubble in tulips, expanded into a massive bubble in tulip contracts, then collapsed massively. Is that different?