Irrational Exuberance: Tulipmania Financial Bubble

In February 1637, an entire society woke up and realized it had been trading in nothing. A single tulip bulb had sold for the price of a grand Amsterdam canal house. This is the full story of Tulipmania — the world's first recorded financial bubble, and the template for every market crash that has followed for the last 400 years. From the stolen bulbs of Leiden to the futures contracts traded in smoke-filled Dutch taverns, this audiobook traces exactly how an exotic flower became a financial instrument, how leverage and social pressure drove prices to vertical insanity, and how the whole thing collapsed in a single silent afternoon when no one bid. But more than history, this is a story about us. About why the same pattern — displacement, euphoria, denial, panic — repeats with mechanical regularity every generation. About the neuroscience that makes rational people abandon their trades and mortgage their homes for a flower. And about why knowing all of this doesn't stop us doing it again. If you've been watching the markets lately, this will feel uncomfortably familiar. This audiobook was created with Cult of Knowledge — an app where you type any topic and instantly get a full-length, high-quality audiobook on demand. History, psychology, philosophy, science, business — whatever rabbit hole you're in, there's an audiobook for it. 📱 Get the app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/cult-of...