Tulips are beautiful. So beautiful they became objects of greed and envy. Nowhere moreso than in 17th century Holland. Tulip bulbs became a frenzied market, and eventually the most expensive commodity in the world. Until February 3, 1637. 
This little chart shows how the tulip market wilted, rather quickly. Fortunes that had been made vanished. Happy 375th anniversary of the end of Tulipomania.
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