Word: tulipomania
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...taken from houses with smallpox in Europe. Viruses helped cause a fiscal crisis in 17th century Holland, where infections of tulip bulbs produced a new variety of the flower with spectacular, rippling patterns of color. The government was unable to control the resulting speculation, which threatened the economy before tulipomania, as it became known, died down...
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