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For current and prospective college students, and their parents, this might mean avoiding college majors that made sense in a pre-AI world, like computer science, or that were created in response to AI mania.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

London's sold-out Bayeux Tapestry exhibition will open Thursday to a British public gripped by "mania" as the medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England goes on display outside France for the first time.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Indeed, assets managed by leveraged ETFs around the world surged earlier this year as AI mania shifted into overdrive.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026

Clancy's team tried to convince jurors she had postpartum psychosis, a rare condition in which postpartum women can experience mania, depression or a mixture of both.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

It would have been faster, but Denna’s mania was growing stronger, and all her extra energy was more of a hindrance than a help.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

For Kedrosky, then, the behavioral aspects of manias and bubbles don’t change: Investors chase things at the wrong time and then panic.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

“If rates or credit spreads ever go up, the companies that borrowed will have to borrow at even higher rates,” Mr. Dimon warns—a timeless lesson often forgotten in credit manias.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

It’s hard to value the potential growth of such businesses, which is why speculative meme-stock manias can take hold so easily.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025

Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that are rendering the 21st century intolerable.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022

Used to his manias, Aureliano paid no attention to him.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez