The crash really began around Easter of 2006, when many politicians, the property and banking sector, and some economists and journalists publicly denied that there was anything wrong with the property market, while privately looking to offload vast tranches of property or related interests
Unfinished homes on a ghost estate in Keshcarrigan, Co Leitrim after the Celtic Tiger crash. Photo by Aidan Crawley via Getty Images
There mightn’t have been a British Empire had it not been for exotic tulips.
Just at the point when the globe-dominating Dutch Republic had reached its pinnacle as the world’s wealthiest empire, a significant tranche of its citizens, rich and poor like, were rendered penniless overnight.