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To: accountclosed who wrote (14155)	12/30/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86076

Yup, our recently deceased Joe G. posted some facts on both bubbles many months ago and your comments are about right. I don't remember when he posted that - I do remember laughing about the seaman that took some rich guys tulip bulb off the table and wandered off back to the docks. When they finally caught him he was eating the damn thing - he thought it was some sort of potato! -g-

To: accountclosed who wrote (14155)	12/30/1998 5:15:00 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

AR, IMO, i-nut craze is another mania and surely be brought to its knees. Just a matter of when the bubble bursts. Here's a book on market manias for anyone interested. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Confusion De Confusiones Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into harebrained speculative frenzies -- only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and overvalued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but the excerpts of these two classics--first published in 1841 and 1688, respectively--show that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed, and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas. In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action": when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often considerably less than 1, and sometimes less than 0. <<<I agree I don't know of a mania like this one. I think nifty fifty of sixties paled by comparison. In fact tulips and South Seas were tamer than prices going up 15 fold in one day weren't they. The South Sea thing took years to really bubble up didn't it. >>> Regards, Nick