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Speculative Bubble

Explore the history of financial speculation, the concepts behind market bubbles, and major historical episodes.

By @darkoUpdated Aug 19, 2026

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Speculative bubbleKeystone
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An economic bubble is a period when current asset prices greatly exceed their intrinsic valuation, being the valuation that the underlying long-term fundamentals justify.
Futures contractKeystone
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In finance, a futures contract is a standardized legal contract to buy or sell something at a predetermined price for delivery at a specified time in the future, between parties not yet known to each other.
SpeculationKeystone
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In finance, speculation is the purchase of an asset with the hope that that asset will become more valuable in a brief amount of time.

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Forward curve — related to → Futures contract: standardized version of forward contracts
Speculation — related to → Information cascade: social mechanism triggering speculative herd behavior
Speculation — related to → Behavioural finance: field studying the cognitive biases behind speculative decisions
Speculation — related to → Irrational exuberance: psychological state fueling speculative market bubbles
Speculation — related to → Charles P. Kindleberger: historian who documented the cyclical nature of speculation
Speculation — related to → Margin (finance): mechanism enabling high-risk speculative leverage
Speculation — related to → Greater fool theory: psychological driver of speculative asset bubbles
Speculation — related to → Efficient-market hypothesis: theoretical framework challenging the premise of profitable speculation

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