5 centuries of bubbles and bursts

History is replete with financial frenzies that seem ridiculous in hindsight, but were viewed as anything but at the time.

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1959: Electronics
At the dawn of the Space Age, stocks with "tron" in their name - like Astron and Transitron - zoomed to the moon. But in 1962, they came crashing back down to earth.

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