Why Did the Dutch Go Insane Over Tulips in 1637?

Описание: In February 1637, a single tulip bulb could buy you a mansion in Amsterdam. One month later, that same bulb was worthless. Welcome to history's first financial bubble—the Dutch Tulip Mania.

This isn't just a story about flowers. It's about how an entire nation convinced itself that tulips were more valuable than houses, how tavern-drinking weavers became speculators trading contracts for bulbs that didn't exist yet, and how a viral infection created a biological lottery that fueled unprecedented greed.

We'll explore the four levels of this financial disaster: from the basic facts everyone knows, to the mechanisms of leverage and futures trading that amplified the madness, to the darker truths modern historians have uncovered, and finally to the conspiracy theories that still haunt Dutch archives.

The craziest part? We learned nothing. The same psychology that drove Dutch merchants to mortgage everything for flowers drives modern investors into crypto bubbles, housing crashes, and tech stock manias. Every generation thinks "this time is different." It never is.
Join us as we descend into the depths of financial madness and discover why the Dutch Tulip Mania remains the perfect cautionary tale we refuse to learn from. Because somewhere right now, another bubble is forming.