1636 – 2022 · After Kindleberger

Boom & Bust

For four hundred years, markets have repeated the same story: something new changes the world, credit makes everyone brave, prices detach from reality — and then someone asks for their money back. This site retells the great financial crashes, one by one, as variations on that single pattern.

How every bubble works →
1636–37 · Tulip Mania (Haarlem) 1719–20 · The Mississippi Bubble (Paris) 1720 · The South Sea Bubble (London) 1763 · The Amsterdam Crisis (Amsterdam) 1825 · The Latin America Loan Bust (Latin America) 1866 · Overend Gurney (London) 1890 · The Barings Crisis (Buenos Aires) 1907 · The Panic of 1907 (New York) 1921–32 · The Great Crash (New York) 1920s–31 · The German Credit Wave (Berlin) 1982 · The LDC Debt Crisis (Mexico City) 1985–90 · Japan’s Twin Bubbles (Tokyo) 1987 · Black Monday (New York) 1980s–90s · The US S&L Crisis (Texas) 1990–94 · The Nordic Banking Crises (Stockholm) 1994–95 · The Mexican Peso Crisis (Mexico City) 1997–98 · The Asian Financial Crisis (Bangkok) 1995–2002 · The Dot-Com Bubble (San Francisco) 2002–09 · The Global Financial Crisis (New York) 2008–11 · Iceland & Ireland (Reykjavík) 2018–22 · The Crypto Mania (Nassau) 2015– · China’s Real Estate Long Squeeze (Shenzhen)
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