Tulip Mania: When a Flower Bulb Cost a House

<p>In sixteen thirty-seven, a single tulip bulb could be traded for a canal house in Amsterdam. Men mortgaged everything for a brown lump that would sit in the ground all winter. Then one morning at an auction in Haarlem, nobody bid — and the whole thing went to zero.</p><p>August Mercer separates the real madness from the moralising myth, and shows why every bubble since has been the exact same shape. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p>