mania
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Some people trace the stock-market mania story back to the railroad boom in the 1800s, the South Sea Bubble in the 1700s or the Dutch mania for tulip bulbs in the 1600s.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
Rate cuts helped housing, residential construction and consumer durables to turn around within a few quarters, and a stock-market mania was then replaced by a housing boom.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
Positive trial data for Rapport’s lead pipeline candidate, RAP-219, a treatment for bipolar mania, points to a potential $1 billion peak sales opportunity, Jefferies says.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
He points to prior periods of heavy investment such as the railroad boom and mania around dot-com stocks, which led to market busts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
He ridiculed their devotion to the machine as “a mania for gadgets or a post-infantile fascination for scientific meccano games.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Wall Street manias and crashes, sadly, are about as variable as a Scooby-Doo episode.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
And Chancellor is working on an update to his fascinating history of financial manias, “Devil Take the Hindmost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 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
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