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Tulip Fever
2017 · Film · 107 min
Directed by Justin Chadwick
An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
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For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident even provides the backdrop for the new film Tulip Fever, based on a novel of the same name by Deborah Moggach.
The only problem: none of these stories are true.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-tulip-fever-180964915/
>For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident even provides the backdrop for the new film Tulip Fever, based on a novel of the same name by Deborah Moggach. The only problem: none of these stories are true.
Well, speaking of economists' historical-based arguments that weren't, there never was much truth about the keyboard wars either: https://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html
This is an advertisement for the movie Tulip Fever that just came out. I noticed a lot of similar posts on other social media sites in the last six months.