"The Plush Bubble - When we thought stuffed animals were a retirement plan" dissects the Beanie Baby craze of the late 1990s. For a few years, rational adults spent thousands of dollars on $5 bean-filled toys, convinced they would increase in value forever. It was a tulip mania made of polyester.Financial journalist Laura Bennett profiles the secretive genius behind it, Ty Warner, who manipulated supply by "retiring" specific bears to create artificial scarcity. The book describes the madness: families broke up over collections, a murder was committed over a transaction, and a famous court...