Economic Bubble - Examples of Bubbles and Purported Bubbles

Examples of Bubbles and Purported Bubbles

  • Tipper and See-Saw Time (1621)
  • Tulip mania (top 1637)
  • South Sea Company (1720)
  • Mississippi Company (1720)
  • Railway Mania (1840s)
  • Encilhamento ("Mounting") (1886–1892)
  • Florida speculative building bubble (1926)
  • Roaring Twenties stock-market bubble (c. 1922-1929)
  • Poseidon bubble (1970)
  • Japanese asset price bubble (1980s)
    • 1997 Asian Financial Crisis (1997)
  • The Dot-com bubble (1995–2000)
  • Rice bubble (2007-08)
  • Real estate bubble
    • Australian first home buyer (FHB) property bubble (as of 2009)
    • Indian property bubble (as of 2005)
    • British property bubble (as of 2006)
    • Irish property bubble (as of 2006)
    • United States housing bubble (as of 2007)
      • (The former Florida swampland real estate bubble)
    • Spanish property bubble (as of 2006)
    • China stock and property bubble (as of 2007)
    • Romanian property bubble (as of 2008)
  • Uranium bubble of 2007
  • Rhodium bubble of 2008 (increase from $500/oz to $9000/oz in July 2008, then down to $1000/oz in January 2009)
  • Exotic Livestock production in North America (i.e. llamas, ostriches, white tail deer, elk, wild boar, and to a lesser extent bison) and the UK (i.e. ostrich eggs, ostriches, llamas, wild boar and emu eggs).
  • Higher education bubble(1980–Present), a term used by PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel and some economists to describe the steep increase of tuition and other costs at American colleges and universities, and a possible future collapse.

Other goods which have produced bubbles include postage stamps and coin collecting.

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