The biggest economic bubbles of all time
Daniel Coughlin
20 August 2019
The most damaging and wide-ranging speculative frenzies in history
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Tulip mania
Cornelis Danckerts [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Tulip mania
Hendrik Gerritsz Pot [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
South Sea Company bubble
Edward Matthew Ward [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
South Sea Company bubble
William Hogarth [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Mississippi Company/Company of the Indies bubble
John Senex [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Mississippi Company/Company of the Indies bubble
Cornell University Library [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Panic of 1819 bubble
Anna Barbara Giezendanner [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons
Panic of 1819 bubble
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Panic of 1837 bubble
Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Panic of 1837 bubble
Henry Dacre [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Railway mania
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Railway mania
A.B. Clayton [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Panic of 1857 bubble
G.F. Nesbitt & Co. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Panic of 1857 bubble
Library of Congress [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Florida real estate bubble
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Florida real estate bubble
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Roaring Twenties bubble
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Roaring Twenties bubble
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Souk al-Manakh stock market bubble
MOseQar [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
Souk al-Manakh stock market bubble
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Global stock market bubble, or Black Monday
Maria Bastone/AFP/Getty
Global stock market bubble, or Black Monday
Hulton Archive/Getty
Japanese asset price bubble
Jiji Press/AFP/Getty
Japanese asset price bubble
Alex Frank/Shutterstock
Dot-com bubble
Courtesy SanFrancisco magazine/Modern Luxury
Dot-com bubble
Newsmakers/Getty
US housing bubble
Mark Wilson/Getty
US housing bubble
Richard B. Levine/SIPA USA/PA
Cryptocurrency bubble
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Cryptocurrency bubble
Nhac Nguyen/AFP/Getty
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