Marcus Today on Life: Tulipomania
1623, Tulip Mania. A single tulip bulb sells for a thousand Dutch florins, seven times the average annual wage. The average tulip trader makes sixty thousand florins a month. 400 times the annual wage. 40 bulbs sell for 100,000 florins. You could have bought 3,333 pigs for the same price. People were selling possessions to…