Tulip Mania wasn’t just about greedy traders flipping flowers for profit, it started because people genuinely wanted tulips as a symbol of wealth and taste. In a strict Calvinist society where flashy ...

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Bernard L. Madoff is in therapy. Each week, he waits for the signal that prisoners are allowed to leave their housing units, then he walks the five minutes from his “room,” as he calls it, to the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...