According to Anne Goldgar, author of Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age, the tulip "craze" was greatly exaggerated as a propaganda piece by Dutch Calvinists against consumerism.
This article has an interesting summary.
>For decades, economists have pointed to 17th-century tulipmania as a warning about the perils of the free market. Writers and historians have reveled in the absurdity of the event. The incident even provides the backdrop for the new film Tulip Fever, based on a novel of the same name by Deborah Moggach.
>The only problem: none of these stories are true.
>(...) In fact, “There weren’t that many people involved and the economic repercussions were pretty minor,” Goldgar says. “I couldn’t find anybody that went bankrupt. If there had been really a wholesale destruction of the economy as the myth suggests, that would’ve been a much harder thing to face.”
>(...) All the outlandish stories of economic ruin, of an innocent sailor thrown in prison for eating a tulip bulb, of chimney sweeps wading into the market in hopes of striking it rich—those come from propaganda pamphlets published by Dutch Calvinists worried that the tulip-propelled consumerism boom would lead to societal decay. Their insistence that such great wealth was ungodly has even stayed with us to this day.
| Rank | Title | Domestic Gross (Weekend) | Worldwide Gross (Cume) | Week # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hitman's Bodyguard | $10,250,000 | $76,208,648 | 3 |
| 2 | Annabelle: Creation | $7,300,000 | $253,375,598 | 4 |
| 3 | Wind River | $5,863,074 | $21,380,273 | 5 |
| 4 | Leap! | $4,886,923 | $94,474,241 | 2 |
| 5 | Logan Lucky | $4,886,923 | $24,619,929 | 3 |
Notable Box Office Stories:
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While this weekend wasn't as bad as it could have been it's been another rough one. Once again #1 was The Hitman's Bodyguard which dropped just 0.1% to come in with $10.2M. In fact despite being the first Labor Day weekend in 20 years without a new release the box office actually managed to improve over last, clearly do to the lack of external factors including Harvey finally dying down in the south and a heat wave in the west forcing many to seek aircon theaters. 6 of the top 10 films actually saw an increase in sales over last weekend and half of those lost theater counts. Still while it didn't top last weekend as the worst weekend in 20 years, it did become the worst Labor Day weekend since 2000, the illustrious weekend where the biggest release was the 4th Highlander film. Now to be fair Labor Day has never been a massive money maker, with the highest grossing opening ever in the slot being Halloween '07 which opened to a 'whopping' $26.3M. Still this was a miserable weekend with not a single new release cracking the top 10 and managing to come in over $25M overall less than last year's Labor Day. WB has wisely kept itself away the last month despite winning the summer overall. They have been wisely building hype for IT which now has all the room in the world to explode because by god the summer has ended with two of the biggest thuds in box office history.
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When adjusted for inflation Close Encounters of the Third Kind is still in the top 100 highest grossing films. However it seems general audiences don't care that much any more as the 4K rerelease opened pretty weak at #13 with $1.8M in 900 theaters, a per theater average of around $2,000. It's been a rough time for re-releases this summer as also Terminator 2: 3D has paled in comparison to the 3D re-release boom of 2011-2012 (so far it's grossed $920K while Titanic 3D opened to $17.2M and ended up grossing $57.8M). If even that re-release can't bring in the crowds despite it being a primary theatrical experience then it's no wonder Close Encounters failed. The 4K Blu-Ray will be ou
I watched the movie and wanted to know if it was an actual thing and how much it really affected the economy and how bad it was. When googling it, all I could find is information about the movie though.
4k
15:17 to Paris
A Simple Favor
Crazy Rich Asians
Game Night
Hurricane Heist
Life of the Party
Ocean's 8
Rampage
Ready Player One
Spy Who Dumped Me
Tag
Teen Titans Go To The Movies
The Commuter
The Meg
Tomb Raider
Uncle Drew
You Were Never Really Here
HD
47 Meters Down
8th Grade
American Assassin
Anabelle Creation
Blindspotting
Braven
Early Man
Glass Castle
Goosebumps 2
Hereditary
Hitman's Bodyguard
Hostiles
Overboard
The House
Tulip Fever
Monsters U (GP)
Winchester
Wind River
Sony Bundle (1 code, 7 HD movies. This is not the Verizon Up offer)
Hotel Transylvania 3
Slender Man
Searching
Alpha
Equalizer 2
Venom
White Boy Rick
TV
Black Sails S3
Want List
Overlord 4K
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Sisters Brothers
Sorry to Bother You
Bohemian Rhapsody 4K
Tangled (Split Ok)
Monsters U (Split OK)
Willow (Split OK)
Unfriended: Dark Web
- Maze Runner The Death Cure
- Gods Not Dead A Light Into Darkness
- All The Money In The World
- Proud Mary
- Geostorm
- The Dark Knight Trilogy
- Jigsaw
- Wonder
- Spide Man Homecomming
- Hacksaw Ridge
- Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
- Ghost Busters I & II
- Deadpool 2
- Black Panther (GP)
- Black Panther (itunes)
- Batman Ninja
- Suicide Squad Hell to Pay
- Pacific Rim Uprising
- Darkest Hour
- Hostiles
- Ready Player One
- Back to the Future Trilogy
- Action Point (iTunes)
- The Shape of Water
- Life of the Party
- Only the Brave
- Chappaquiddick
- The Disaster Artist
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
- Avengers Infinity War (iTunes)
- Wonder
- Molly's Game
- Den of Thieves
- Murder on the Orient Express
- Pacific Rim Uprising
- Wind River
- Love, Simon
- Darkest Hour
- I, Tonya
- Red Sparrow 4K
Want:
- Avengers (2012) 4K, Avengers Age of Ultron 4K
- First Reformed
- offers
This has a little to do with link and a lot to do with the space in general, however this seems like the most informed and mature alt coin sub I'm a part of so I'll throw this out here.
I work on a mine site in Australia. Probably as far away from the frontline of a new tech industry as you can get. Common working class (good) people with simple ambitions and no exposure or understanding of blockchain whatsoever...
Everyone is talking about, and! buying bitcoin. "How do I get some of these bitcoins" "the bitcoin mob sent me an email yesterday" "there was this guy that made 3 million in 12 months" etc etc.
For bitcoin to be part of the dialogue out here is a massive indicator of it reaching the mainstream.
*So my questions are, how exposed are the less speculative (granted I know all are speculative to some degree), alts to a bitcoin bubble.
*How long do you think we have and what would be a safe hedge.
*What would be some more obvious indicators that the sector is overheating.
This 100% isn't fud, im just trying to raise my eyes a little to the horizon whilst not been blinded by dollar signs.
TIA
