A Slate article summarizes an argument (PDF, graphs all black) that the Dutch tulip bubble wasn't a bubble -- it was an efficient market response to a legislative intervention, when the Dutch legislature essentially converted outstanding tulip futures into options, at the behest of certain burgomasters who had gotten themselves into a hole.
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