voted into existence and the remnants of
these systems were forged into
concentrated ingots infinity stone he
stones it seems can only be brandished
by things of extraordinary strength
observe these carriers can use the stone
to mow down entire civilizations like
wheat in a field once what a moment that
group was able to share the energy
amongst themselves but even they were
quickly destroyed by it
what is good youtube Warstu here with a
video on Avengers 4 so it's coming up to
September that's when the infinity war
blu-ray officially comes out over here
so I'm starting my giveaway on this
video I'm gonna be giving away up to
three at least one so all you got to do
is subscribe to the channel make sure to
like share and comment down below who is
your favorite MTU villain and why so
today's video is insane and it's come
from a fellow youtuber who I speak to
called the cosmic Wonder don't worry I
spoke to him back going over this theory
and he okayed it so he's a fellow
youtuber in the Marvel creator community
that we have here pretty awesome dude
so yesterday post an insane theory which
makes a lot of sense about Galactus
being the Power Stone or trapped in the
past own so make sure to subscribe to
him guys the link will be down below and
he's also been on my recommended channel
list for a while so guys make sure to
subscribe
so yesterday I posted a video about the
Infinity Gauntlet snack waking up or
creating Galactus inside with a quantum
well but what if this isn't true and he
is in fact the power stone like this
video just say so ages ago there was a
theory are going around about the
finalists Easter Egg from guardians of
the galaxy B and Galactus inside the
celestial staff because of the helmet
but it was debunked by James Gunn
now James Gunn has nothing to do a
Marvel because they fired him due to
what was going on we don't know what the
final Easter Egg is ever going to be
although some people say it was
confirmed it wasn't really confirmed he
debunked it so the theory is Galactus is
the power stone or is trapped in the
Power Stone but to answer this question
you have to know what the infinitive
Infinity stones are throughout the whole
m2u we've learned a band from various
people in this video from the theory
I've said and where it's come from Odin
and the collector mainly are the sources
of information
our relics that predate the universe
itself what lies within
so in dark world
Odin said there were relics that predate
the universe itself then in gardens that
galaxy the collector went into more
detail about the creation itself there
were six singularities then the universe
exploded into existence and the remnants
of the system will forge into
concentrated in Gong's aka leo infinity
stone so in the flash there are remnants
there's time remnants when you
manipulate the timeline manipulate a
universe and kind of do stuff you're not
supposed to do it so that's not really
relevant to this I just thought it's
kind of funny that as remnants in the
MCU and there's remnants inside the
flashy universe so what this theory is
saying is both Odin and that the
collector said that these relics existed
before our own universe existed and when
it exploded these relics left from these
universe and the remnants pieces all
fought into Infinity stones hence why
they are so strong this is how and why
the Infinity stones were actually
created so how this theory worked is
really due to the origin of collectors
himself the lion who gained cosmic
abilities by passing a near star and
then the character was further developed
revealing that Galan lived during the
previous universe that existed prior to
the Big Bang which begun the current
universe as client universe became to an
end he merged with a Centon of the
universe to become Galactus an entity
that wielded such cosmic power as to
require devouring entire planets to
obtain his existence he's essentially a
source of power he is the power who is
Galactus the world eater
so the Galactus came before the current
universe before the Big Bang his
universe was wiped out and he could be a
remnant from the universe which could
easily be one of the six six seven six
six
singularities that we spoke about the
MCU and Marvel Comics aren't exactly the
same but Marvel directors like the Russo
brothers who made infinity war civil war
an event
for like to pull from the comic but the
Russo brothers pacifically won't carbon
copy anything from the comics but they
will take Emperor inspiration and they
will modify a story or talent in
different way so the power stone angle
actors are the same color we see this in
the gardens the galaxy Easter egg with a
celestial and that's why most people
think that is the last Easter egg which
is interesting during the flashback we
see a celestial with what looks like the
Power Stone and the helmet looks like
practice helmet wiping out a whole
planet which shows the true power of
Galactus the world here and obviously
their similarities so if you follow this
video the idea that Galactus could
either being a Power Stone or be stuck
in that the Power Stone makes a lot of
sense but who could have actually
brought them in there I'm not sure in
the comics it was the watcher so maybe
they could do it and here so I don't
know guys it would be a really
interesting concept I know what some
people would say but would you the fox
deal hasn't gone through well yeah he is
part of the Fantastic Four and that kind
of stuff but you never know they might
have a secret deal like I said in
yesterday's video that could allow
Galactus to be SERP for the Avengers 5
overall villain he could appear it could
be a little cheeky Easter Egg telling
you oh my god Galactus is stuck in the
Power Stone you got remember cuz we
never seen the Power Stone get taken did
we it got took from Xander but that
scene got deleted did it get deleted
because of the hole he is Galactus stuck
in the Power Stone I think it's very
interesting so guys I like I said that
the style video make sure to check out
the original video from the cosmic
Wonder is links in the bio it's also in
the community and I sorry it's also in
the feature channels at the left at the
right off the top of the channel so guys
would love to know what you think about
his theory I think it would be insane I
know - like this videos back to back I
am working on an Adam warlock video I
think there is a way the Adam warlock
was secretly inside infinity war and
Avengers 4 so I'm posting that later on
if I've got time should be posting it a
couple of hours after this two or three
hours out of this
if I get time so I call his guys check
out the competition let me know who's
the best MCU villain ever and don't you
say that offs please please because we
want a nice low-key jokes anyway guys
please like subscribe and comment and I
will catch you in another video very
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Is Caffeine Why You Feel Like S&#T? - Duration: 6:46.
all right so let's speak about caffeine and why it really may be the reason
you're feeling like crap feeling tired you know paradoxically caffeine actually
makes a lot of people tired and many people don't realize this many people in
fact don't realize how strong caffeine is because it is a drug it's a stimulant
it has profound effects on the brain but it's something that people underestimate
just because of how widespread its use is I think it's somewhere of upwards of
70 to 80 percent of Americans at least have at least one cup of coffee or some
sort of a beverage that contains caffeine a per day so it's extremely
widely used but misunderstood so basically how caffeine works is that
when you ingest it it blocks something called adenosine which naturally builds
up as you get more tired so basically it blocks this so it prevents you from
getting tired and increases things like cortisol the stress hormone and this
also leads to you being more alert as well as increasing things like
catecholamines like norepinephrine increasing ketone bodies caffeine
actually mobilizes fat too so you know caffeine is great it helps with your
physical performance it's been shown in studies to help with
the working memory but the problem is that these benefits are short-lived
after you become dependent on caffeine because once you're actually dependent
on caffeine and it only takes about a cup of coffee per day for this to occur
all you're doing by giving yourself that boost physically or mentally or both is
alleviating the withdrawal symptoms you experience so you go to bed you wake up
you feel tired you feel like crap because you're having withdrawals from
the caffeine you have your coffee and the cycle continues as you continuously
think that you're getting a benefit from caffeine but in fact if you were to go
off caffeine if you were to allow receptors in the brain to re sensitize
then over time you would feel just as good if not better without a dependency
on something like caffeine what caffeine is actually doing in the body isn't
creating energy right it's basically giving you an advanced on energy it's
giving you energy and then it's gonna take that away late
as you crash your ballroom energy and once you get in the cycle of
continuously borrowing energy and never using any of your own you're gonna feel
it with some negative side effects of caffeine there are some other negatives
of caffeine increased risk of anxiety especially if you're already prone to
that it's going to exacerbate that because of the increase in cortisol that
it causes and now let me be clear I'm not saying it's bad I'm not saying that
having a cup a day is as bad if you can manage with that and that's perfectly
okay even to I mean there are many correlation studies which link caffeine
to a decreased risk of degenerative brain disorder disorders like
Alzheimer's there's even a correlation with a longer life for those who consume
more coffee up to four cups a day generally teens tends to be optimal for
life expectancy when looking at correlation studies these are just
correlations but you know certainly caffeine isn't something that's
dangerous to the extent of other narcotics obviously but um what I am
saying is that we are in general drinking too much and I don't advise
that you drink it to the extent where it becomes something you're dependent on
that's never a good idea to be dependent on something it's always good to have
your baseline your normal self where you're not stimulating yourself with
caffeine or nicotine or alcohol and then use it as a boost when required for
example before a workout or on a day where you feel particularly tired
rather than utilizing it as a crutch everyday in order to get up and live
your life now again I'm not saying that that's a bad thing you can do that but
if you personally have been feeling tired and you're not sure why maybe even
anxious maybe even your performance in the gym isn't as you want it to be and
you've been consuming caffeine on a regular basis for a long time and
gradually building up the dose of it as you become more tolerant to it then I
would highly recommend decreasing it not permanently not I'm not saying that's
the best course of action but if you haven't and you've been doing it for
five years and you might as well give yourself a few weeks where you go off
the caffeine just to see how your body responds now do be warned that you will
experience withdrawal symptoms from stopping the use of caffeine especially
if you go cold turkey and you completely eliminate it you're probably going to be
bed bound if you've been reliant on several couple of coffee per day for
several years so you know a good idea it can be to slowly kill it cut it down by
drinking decaf mixing it with decaf you know reducing the cups of coffee from
three one week to two the next week to one the next week or you could just call
go cold turkey and brace through those first few days of feeling like crap but
you know through my own personal experience and other anecdotes I've read
online after you do quit caffeine you're going to have much more stable energy
instead of having that cup of coffee in the morning feeling that energy and then
crashing a few hours later the energy that you do have although it may not be
as intense and exciting and euphoric the moment you wake up will be much more
gradual and you'll be more productive overall paradoxically as you have more
stable energy to take you through from morning to night so that's definitely
something you want to consider the best part about reducing your caffeine intake
and you know ideally eliminating it almost completely is that when you do
use it when you want to use it for example if you're very tired and you
still want to go to the gym but you really need a boost when you do use it
in that circumstance you're actually going to feel the positive effects of it
and get a real benefit rather than just alleviating the withdrawal symptoms you
were experiencing so that's probably the best part so I
highly advise that you form a relationship with caffeine more similar
to the one most people have with alcohol you know wake up and have a drink you
know you have a drink on the weekend to have fun with your friends for example
if you do that if you don't it's fine and just like that it's good to have
that relationship with caffeine where you use it once in a while for a workout
once in a while when you need to do an all-nighter for a project you're working
on that's kind of the relationship I think you should have with any sort of
stimulating substance which does have profound impacts on the brain so that's
it for the video leave your thoughts down below on caffeine and I'll I'll see
you guys later
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Everyone's heard that distracted driving is dangerous, and there's a mountain of studies backing that up.
Almost 400,000 Americans are killed or injured annually in distracted driving-related crashes.
But people all over the world still do it anyway.
In the US, drivers use phones in 88% of car trips.
At least a quarter of teenagers have texted while driving, a quarter of adults say texting or emailing doesn't make their driving worse,
and lots more think other distractions, like talking on the phone, aren't harmful.
Which just… doesn't seem to add up.
We're overconfident, mostly because our brains don't show us how much distractions really affect our driving, which gets us into life-or-death situations.
Ultimately, the problem with distracted driving is multitasking: paying attention to multiple thoughts or tasks at once.
Decades of research have shown that it doesn't matter whether you think you're great or terrible at multitasking, because humans are straight-up awful at it.
You make more mistakes when you're switching focus between multiple tasks, because switching takes time
anywhere from a fraction of a second to half a minute when you're driving while doing something else.
And that transition time leads to missed details and mistakes.
Plus, you have a sort of blindness to one task while you're focused on another.
So you might think you're batting a thousand, because you don't know how much you're missing.
And that's one reason it can be tough to convince people that their distracted driving is dangerous.
Research in driving simulators shows that drivers talking on their cell phones miss as much as half of what happens around them
stop signs, exit ramps, other cars, pedestrians, you name it.
And when you ask them afterwards, they just say those things weren't there.
Now, some of you are probably thinking that maybe this is true for other people, but you really are a good multitasker.
But here's the thing: more confident multitaskers do worse on multitasking tests, not better.
And same goes for multitasking tests that involve driving:
the more comfortable a driver is with multitasking, the worse they tend to be at it.
Confident or not, distracted drivers are significantly more likely to be injured or killed, or hurt someone else.
So it's a serious issue, and one that every single one of us can prevent.
Not all distractions are created equal, though.
Adult drivers generally don't get in more accidents if they're eating or drinking, as long as it's non-alcoholic.
But passengers are an interesting middle ground.
Younger drivers get in more accidents when they have passengers in the car, especially people their own age.
But that increased risk goes down as drivers get older.
Which is actually true for most distractions.
Surveys show that younger drivers aren't as good at identifying and responding to hazards like merging roads or swerving cars, so they choose worse times to be distracted.
They're also about 5-10% more likely to think certain distracting behaviors like talking on the phone don't affect their driving.
But talking on the phone really does, no matter a driver's age.
Like in driving simulations, adults are just as impaired as drunk drivers are and crash more when they're talking on the phone.
And by tracking drivers' eye movements in real life and in simulations, researchers have found that drivers on the phone or doing comparable tasks only look at a fraction of the road.
There's no measurable difference between holding the phone and using a hands-free device or voice recognition software like Siri.
Even if laws and our unaware brains say otherwise.
The danger of a phone call isn't that your hand is off the wheel.
It's that your attention is off the road.That's why the device doesn't matter.
But talking to a passenger in the car is a little different, because they actually can see what's going on around you, and, like, pause the conversation while you find your exit or merge into that lane.
Finally, researchers gathered data from cars with cameras and sensors to study about a thousand serious crashes,
meaning there was property damage or injuries.
And they found that texting, dialing, and reaching for the phone are about the most dangerous things that many people do while driving.
Things like eating and listening to music, especially for experienced drivers, aren't tasks that demand focus from your brain.
And even if your bite is a little off or you miss lyric here or there, who cares?
More dangerous distractions require more of your focused attention, because getting the details of your text conversation right often means getting details of the road wrong.
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The movie business might seem like a glamorous industry with celebrities strutting down red
carpets to watch premieres, but the economics of the biz is a complicated affair with many
financial factors at play.
Movies are media for the masses, and the price of a movie ticket remains affordable in most
places around the world.
The price of popcorn, sodas, and candy, on the other hand, is on the rise at movie theaters.
Are moviegoers being ripped off?
Or is there more behind these premium rates for low-cost items?
And how did popcorn find its way into the movie theater in the first place?
That's what we'll explore today, in this episode of The Infographics Show, Why is movie
popcorn so expensive?
Moviemaking is always somewhat of a gamble.
The public can be fickle, and the industry is changing with new distribution methods
evolving, such as Netflix and Amazon.
Even a film with big names and a huge marketing machine behind it can totally flop.
The Motion Picture Association of America states that 2016 box office earnings for US
and Canada stood at $11.4 billion, which was a rise of 2% from the previous year.
In 2016, the global box office was said to earn $38.6 billion.
In the early days of cinema, a movie would be made, hit the theaters, make the vast majority
of revenue through ticket sales, and then promptly disappear.
Indie surprise hit Little Miss Sunshine was made for $8 million, sold to distributor Fox
Searchlight for $10.5 million, and made $59.9 million at the box office.
On the other hand, Walt Disney's John Carter had an estimated budget of $250 million but
made only $73 million at the US box office.
Nobody in Hollywood really knows which film will be the next hit, but certain franchises
such as James Bond usually do well at the box office, and superheroes remain super sellers.
For a cinema to show a popular film, the chain has to bid for the right to show it.
This model works to guarantee a high percentage for the film producers and distribution companies.
Sometimes as much as 80% of ticket revenue goes to the film company.
For a first-run release and over a normal year, most theaters lose a little or make
a little money on the ticket sales.
A cinema that takes in $30 million in ticket sales might get to keep about $30,000, or
a profit of about 0.1%.
When one adds up the cost of running and staffing the premises, utilities, etc., the theater
will usually be running at a loss and need popcorn to pop them from the red to the black.
Back in the day, a movie ticket would be a few dollars, and the matinee cheaper than
that.
Nowadays, taking a family of four to the cinema may cost $50, and once you add popcorn and
sodas, the evening can add up to $100.
According to a DoughRoller article, around 55% of each ticket sold goes to the studio
that created the movie.
So if a ticket is $10, the production studio gets $5.50.
The article divided up that $5.50 into $2.11 for advertising and marketing.
$1.71 is set aside for the production of the movie - crew equipment, writers, locations
- everything apart from the actors and talent.
$1 goes towards movie distribution, and $0.68 goes towards the cast of the movie.
This percentage will vary from film to film.
A horror movie may have a low budget for its cast, whereas an action movie will no doubt
have a star-studded lineup that will require a larger percentage.
The theater chain sets the price for the ticket rather than the production studios.
Theater attendance has been falling according to some studies, and this makes it more difficult
for distributors and producers to make a profit from the films that they make and distribute.
During the opening week of a film, the price of the ticket is divided between the theater
owners, the distributor, and the production company.
The longer the picture shows, the higher the percentage of the ticket price goes to the
theater.
Each film will have a separate contract.
The films that flop normally give the cinema a larger percentage of the ticket price.
Foreign sales are a big pull for producers.
This is why we see lots of superhero films.
They are easy to understand if you are sitting in a theater in China, India, or the USA.
An independent romantic comedy doesn't have the same international value.
So while filmmakers try to make hits each time, only a handful of movies are actually
successful at the box office each year.
The theater will not force any moviegoers to buy concessions such as popcorn, although
in doing so, you keep the business model running.
Movie tickets are less expensive than sporting events, concerts, theme parks, and even some
art galleries and museums.
Movie theaters may eject folks who bring in their own food or drinks, but there is a reason
for that.
The theaters are held accountable by law should anyone become ill at their business premises.
And, really, if you do want to snack, the concession counter is right there and part
of the moviegoing experience.
And when you're buying popcorn, you're helping to keep the cinemas running at a profit.
Studies from the University of California and Stanford Graduate School of Business show
that this is the real reason behind these inflated popcorn prices.
Basically, by charging high-end prices for popcorn, the movie theaters are able to keep
the price for movie tickets lower, allowing more moviegoers to watch the latest epic action
or superhero film.
The research questions whether it is better to charge more for the primary product (the
movie ticket) or the secondary product (the popcorn), and most moviegoers would agree
that the price of the ticket is the most important.
Lower ticket prices mean that people who want to enjoy the movie but aren't too fussy
about munching on popcorn while doing so, have the door wide open for them to watch
the latest flick.
Sales from concessions such as popcorn make up around 20 percent of a movie theater's
gross revenues, but they make up almost 40 percent of profits.
Some studies report that this figure is more like 85% of profits.
While ticket revenues must be shared with movie distribution companies, the theater
gets to keep 100 percent of the popcorn sales, so this is typically their bread-and-butter
business.
Academic Wesley Hartman of Stanford and Richard Gil, assistant professor at the University
of California, discovered that during periods of high and low cinema attendance, the popcorn
sales remained stable and were actually proportionately higher during periods of low ticket sales.
This suggests that dedicated moviegoers will buy popcorn, whereas the occasional moviegoer
will happily skip the concessions and just watch the movie.
In a separate study of Spanish theaters, it was found that customers who bought their
movie ticket online tended to buy more concession items compared to those who bought their ticket
at the door.
People who come to watch movies in groups tend to buy more popcorn.
Families are more likely to buy popcorn.
Children are persuasive consumers.
This explains why there is normally at least one animation or child-based feature shown
at movie theaters at any one time.
But how did popcorn first find its way into the movie theater?
Corn was first grown domestically about 10,000 years ago in what is now Mexico.
Archaeologists have discovered remnants of popcorn that appear to be dated as early as
3600 BC.
The popping of kernels using a hand stovetop occurred for the first time in the 19th century
and first appeared in the 1848 Dictionary of Americanisms.
The 1890 invention of the popcorn maker increased the popularity of popcorn, with street carts
fitted out with popcorn makers.
During the Great Depression, popcorn cost 5-10 cents a bag, and while other businesses
went under, the popcorn business survived and even thrived.
Theater owners discovered that the snack was popular at their shows but were initially
displeased as they thought munching on popcorn mentally distracted the audience from watching
silent films.
Andrew Smith, the author of the book Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America,
said the following to Smithsonian Magazine: "Movie theaters wanted nothing to do with
popcorn because they were trying to duplicate what was done in real theaters.
They had beautiful carpets and didn't want the popcorn being ground into it.
Movie theaters were trying to appeal to a highbrow clientele, and didn't want to deal
with the distracting trash of concessions – or the distracting noise that snacking
during a film would create.
When film added sound in 1927, the movie theater industry opened itself up to a much wider
clientele, since literacy was no longer required to attend films (the titles used in early
silent films restricted the audience) and by 1930, attendance to movie theaters had
reached 90 million per week.
Such a huge patronage created larger possibilities for profits – especially since the sound
pictures now muffled snacks – but movie theater owners were still hesitant to bring
snacks inside of their theaters."
They eventually changed their tune over time.
In 1938, Glen W. Dickson installed a popcorn machine in the lobby of his Midwestern theaters.
The idea became a successful addition, and the trend soon spread to other theaters around
the country.
The rest, as they say, is history, and now popcorn sales make up to 85% of theaters'
profits
and keep the industry afloat.
So, are you a popcorn buyer, or do you head straight for the screen empty-handed?
Or are you a popcorn smuggler, bringing in your own supply?
Let us know in the comments!
Also, be sure to watch our other video called Why do games cost $60?
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It was called Tulip Mania.
As the story goes, the prices of tulips skyrocketed here in the Netherlands in the 1600s, and then crashed.
It's seen as the first example of an economic bubble.
So what are bubbles, and what causes them to burst?
Throughout the years, there have been all sorts of economic bubbles.
Tulips, real estate, dotcom companies, maybe even bitcoin.
But they all have one thing in common.
Investors pay more for an asset than may actually be justified, resulting in surging, sky-high prices.
Let's use Tulip Mania as an example to understand the anatomy of a bubble.
Economists have laid out five stages of an economic bubble.
Stage one?
Displacement.
It's when investors start to get very excited about a new or innovative product or technology.
That's what happened in the Netherlands in the 1600s.
The country was experiencing a surge in wealth thanks to booming international trade.
Tulips were seen as luxury items. They were rare, and they take a long time to grow.
By the mid-1630s, the Dutch had gone wild for tulips.
More and more buyers drove up the prices of tulips fast.
By some accounts, the price for a single rare type of tulip bulb was equivalent to $50,000.
That brings us to the second stage of an economic bubble: a price boom.
In recent years, we've seen this happen with the dotcom bubble
when shares of the NASDAQ, which tracks tech stocks, spiked in the late 1990s.
Or more recently, when the price of bitcoin roughly tripled in just one month at the end of 2017.
Price booms come back to the simple rules of economics.
Let's say there's a limited supply of a product.
If everybody wants a piece of it, there's a lot of demand. That causes prices to go up.
There was only one tulip crop per year. So there was limited supply and a lot of demand.
Because tulips can only be harvested during certain months of the year,
the Dutch starting buying tulip futures contracts.
They were putting a bet on the future price of a bulb that they didn't have in hand yet.
Even though it was impossible for Dutch buyers to completely predict the future price of a tulip,
they were confident they'd be able to sell it for a higher price than what they paid.
This is the third stage of an economic bubble: euphoria.
It creates a trading frenzy as more and more buyers try to get in on the market.
But then some investors begin to realize that the actual value of a product, like a tulip,
isn't in line with what they paid, and so they cash out.
This is called the profit-taking phase or stage four.
I mean, could a single tulip bulb really be worth $50,000?
Buyers started to lose trust that they were worth that much, and so they started to sell.
By 1637, the prices of tulips plummeted.
Which brings us to the final stage of a bubble: panic.
This is when everyone realizes how crazy it is
that they had paid as much for a tulip bulb as, say, a house in Amsterdam.
That's when they decide it's time to get out of the market.
Selling, selling and more selling ultimately causes a bubble to burst.
We saw panic during the dotcom bubble,
as the NASDAQ tumbled around 40% in the second half of 2000.
Bitcoin's plunge in early 2018 suggested that bubble had burst,
as the value of the cryptocurrency was roughly cut in half in just one month.
One takeaway from Tulip Mania or other more recent bubbles
is that prices are influenced by how much buyers are willing to pay.
When a group of buyers gets excited about a product, like a tulip, they might not act rationally about its price.
This can make predicting and preventing bubbles tough.
Traders, economists and central bankers all can get pretty obsessed with identifying the next bubble.
After all, the burst of the housing bubble in 2008
contributed to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
It's important to know that not all bubbles do burst.
Sometimes price swings are just part of supply and demand,
and don't have spill over effects to other parts of the economy.
Here in Amsterdam, Tulip Mania did have one lasting effect.
The flowers are still a staple in the city nearly 400 years after the bubble.
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