Comments on: Stars of Political Cartooning - William Hogarth

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:42:50 +0000

Market bubbles have been a problem since the tulip mania of 17th century Holland (although the historical accuracy of that event is disputed) right through to the American housing bubble that lead to financial crisis of today. The moral is if it seems to good to be true it probably is.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:02:10 +0000

So the 90's market problems with the internet start ups and such, is pretty much the same problem people had in the 1720's?

We've come so far.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:56:36 +0000

Brian, this series of articles is EXCELLENT. Thank you for doing them.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:13:28 +0000

It bears repetition. This series of posts is fascinating and wonderful.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:37:27 +0000

The Beer Street/Gin Lane images are classics...

Utter brilliance.

Thank you once again...

By: Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:16:56 +0000

How was this guy not drafted into Lemuel Gulliver's Group? Maybe he was, and I missed the reference.