Sentences with phrase «tulip bulbs»

Mackay's account of the Dutch tulip mania, in which people lost fortunes by bidding up the price of tulip bulbs to ridiculous levels, anticipates the recurrent cycles of boom and bust that have plagued nations» economies since his book was first published.

People picked up and traded tulip bulbs in taverns, which he likened to today's cryptocurrency exchanges.

The lovers gamble on the booming market for tulip bulbs as a way to raise money to run away together.

The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party and the biggest newspaper group in China, recently published a piece calling bitcoin a bubble, and comparing the cryptocurrency to the 17th - century Dutch tulip bulb bubble., just like JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon did.

The People's Daily then compares the cryptocurrency to the Dutch tulip bulb bubble, implying bitcoin's bubble will burst once governments around the world start regulating it.

Owning PART is the furthest thing from speculating on tulip bulb futures (a historical blunder to which Dimon compared Bitcoin) as you can get.

When tulip bulb prices became worth the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars (in current values), many Dutch tulip speculators became fantastically wealthy.

Trading on commodities began in Japan in the 18th century with the trading of rice and silk, and similarly in Holland with tulip bulbs.

It's all the exact same short - sighted fear vs. greed stupidity as tulip bulbs were long ago.

The reader is utterly transported, hearing the cacophony of the Hong Kong harbor, smelling the dusty, shabby rooms of Filth's first chambers in London's Temple Bar, and feeling the rich soil crumbling beneath Betty's fingers when she plants tulip bulbs in her British garden.

Seeking to escape the merchant's ever - reaching grasp, the lovers risk everything and enter the frenzied tulip bulb market, with the hope that the right bulb will make a fortune and buy their freedom.

The time to buy tulip bulbs is when they're dull blobs, not when the flowers sprout in spring.

«Cryptocurrencies seem more like tulip bulbs for the digital age,» he writes in a letter to clients.

At one point, a single tulip bulb was worth the same as a house on an Amsterdam canal.

Cloth Diapers 101 When I am around family and friends and they notice that my little one's bottom looks like a colorful tulip bulb, their faces change almost instantly.

I've written about libraries and refugees and being mournful at the Oscars, written about books I loved and why comics were not tulip bulbs, written about my friends, living and dead, written about the things and people who have kept me going in the dark times... Now I've assembled a thick book, filled with non-fiction.

Lastly, it could prove to be the 21st century tulip bulb, a comparison to a speculative asset that soared in the sixteen hundreds before collapsing.

The commentary compared bitcoin to the seventeenth century mania in which prices for tulip bulbs skyrocketed and then collapsed.

Needless to say, I become very uncomfortable anytime I hear the phrase «this time is different,» as we can be sure that participants in every bubble have believed the same, both before and after the Dutch speculators who hoarded tulip bulbs.

Gardeners eager to get a head start on next spring can choose from thousands of free tulip bulbs courtesy of the Chicago Park District.

The Chicago Park District will begin giving away more than 100,000 tulip bulbs at 9 a.m. Thursday at the Garfield Park Conservatory's main parking lot, 300 N. Central Park Ave.

At the peak of the «Great Dutch Tulip Mania of 1637,» an event which is covered in The Confidence Game, the most desirable tulip bulbs commanded outrageous sums of money.

They might not understand stocks or the internet, you know, they might not understand tulip bulbs, but they understood houses.

Worthless tulip bulbs, internet stocks, and so on, have generated incredible returns in periods of time that Buffett was never able to match.

For something a little more affordable, go to the Bloemenmarkt (Flower Market) on Singel between Muntplein and Konigsplein to pick up tulip bulbs galore in colours and styles that will make your garden pop.

Someone is going to get killed,» Dimon said, referring to the economic bubble that formed around tulip bulbs in the 17th century.

While Dimon acknowledges that bitcoin could reach $ 100,000, he also compares to the so - called Tulip mania phase of the Dutch Golden Age, in which excitement over tulip bulbs help make some varieties worth as much as a house in the 1630s.

Bubbles rarely do go to zero when they burst: tulip bulbs still cost money, so does Tokyo real estate, and dotcom stocks are having a second coming.

At the Power Broker session on day one, Andy Puthon and Tom Serviss ask if I received my Royal LePage promotional tulip bulbs.

Living in Minnesota, I like to have new tulip bulbs planted by the end of October.

The socket cup is a brass tulip bulb with a scalloped enameled aluminum collar.

Wyevale Garden Centres» experts also predict that red, purple and pink tulip bulbs are likely to trend this year, along with the dark blue hyacinths.

Speaking to CNBC's Leslie Picker earlier this week, Citadel hedge fund founder and CEO Ken Griffin echoed the sentiments of JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, likening Bitcoin to the historical «Dutch tulip bulb mania» in the 1600s.

«We're excited to give a package of tulip bulbs to more than 2,000 of our clients in Simcoe County and area,» says Faris.

As tulip prices rose to new heights, speculators began to buy tulip bulbs to «flip» later on for higher prices.

«Cryptocurrencies seem more like tulip bulbs for the digital age.»

When I am around family and friends and they notice that my little one's bottom looks like a colorful tulip bulb, their faces change almost instantly.

In the 1630s, Haarlem was (and still is) a major trading centre for tulips, and it was the epicenter during tulip mania, when outrageous prices were paid for tulip bulbs.

Tulip Fever A married woman in 17th century Amsterdam and her lover stake their hopes of running away together on the city's tulip bulb market.

Here are some photos of my recently planted 450 tulip bulbs in bloom!

Alas, tulip bulb prices eventually peaked and soon imploded, bankrupting scores of speculators and throwing the Netherlands into a mild economic depression that lasted for many years.

«It's worse than tulip bulbs,» said Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, during a Barclays conference this month.

In an appearance at a separate conference earlier in the day, Dimon said bitcoin mania is reminiscent of the tulip bulb craze in the 17th century.

«It's worse than tulip bulbs.

The CEO of J.P. Morgan this week called bitcoin a «fraud» and «worse than tulip bulbs.»

He added, at a separate conference organized by Barclay, «It's worse than tulip bulbs.