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This book provides new insight into speculative booms and busts by examining the emergence of major technological innovations and their influence on the market over a 150-year period. The authors pinpoint three factors that create bubbles, make projections about bubbles that are in the works, and offer guidelines for investors and policymakers to help sidestep future episodes.

At the northeastern tip of Staten Island lies the town of St. George, the docking point of the famous Staten Island Ferry. Within its borders is Fort Hill, a fortified British lookout point used during the Revolutionary War. By the 1830s, this area of Staten Island facing the Kill van Kull and New York Harbor was a fashionable resort town where a wealthy clientele frequented the many elegant hotels that graced the area's hilly terrain. Great estates dotted the landscape to take advantage of the unparalleled views of New York City and the bustling harbor below. Today St. George is the civic...