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Tulipmania

An exploration of an economic panics and why AI isn't the next Tulipmania

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Ryan McBeth
May 13, 2026
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Some have suggested that we are living in a new era of Tulipmania, with artificial intelligence being the tulips driving a mad craze across the planet. However, to understand why this isn’t the case, we need to consider the actual Tulipmania and why we shouldn’t put too much stock in such panics.

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