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Strategies & Market Trends : Tech Stock Options

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To: ViperChick Secret Agent 006.9 who wrote (41835)4/29/1998 2:24:00 PM
From: Alan Smithee  Read Replies (2) of 58727
 
some guy in England bought two Princess Di beanie babies
came over here and sold them for 1100 and financed his whole trip

dont tell me this market doesnt need correcting....


Two RealAudio links of interest:

Robert Dunn, a professor of economics at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., talking about a speculative frenzy
on tulip bulbs in 17th century Netherlands. Tulips arrived in the Netherlands from Turkey in 1593, and by 1637 the bulb market had burst, which sent the Netherlands into a recession. Dunn has examples of current day speculation.

npr.org

The Beanie Baby craze:

npr.org

Interesting that both pieces were on NPR's All Things Considered last night back-to-back.
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