The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.20 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1591846021 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990s In the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. The end of the craze was swift and devastating, with "rare" Beanie Babies deemed worthless as quickly as they'd once been deemed priceless. Bissonnette draws on hundreds of interviews (including a visit to a man who lives with his 40,000 Ty products and an in-prison interview with a guy who killed a coworker over a Beanie Baby debt) for the first book on the strangest speculative mania of all time.. In just three years, collectors who saw the toys as a means of speculation made creator Ty Warner, an eccentric college dropout, a billionaire--without advertising or big-box distribution. At t
A must-read for anyone looking to understand how manias start and markets go insane."—LIAQUAT AHAMED, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of Finance “Fascinating, strange, sad, funny, and entirely engrossing, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble is a smart, engaging book that’s as much about the odd saga of these plush toys as it is about the nature of obsession and desire.”—SUSAN ORLEAN, author of Rin Tin Tin “In spare, elegant prose, Zac Bissonnette tells the riveting story of how Ty Warner ruthlessly built Beanie Babies into a mania as misguided and regrettable as the 1637 Dutch tulip craze and mortgage-backed securities in 2008. Most impressive of all, Mr. Zac Bissonnette takes us on a journey into the s
Excellent Research on Beanie Babies and Collecting This is an excellently researched book detailing the history of Beanie Babies, the unique events that led to the Beanie Baby craze, and the inevitable bust as beanie babies worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars became worthless in a span of a few weeks. The author inte. Dan said If You Ever Wondered About the Beanie Craze. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Zac Bissonette put in the time and research to make this a engaging and thoroughly engrossing book on the rise and fall of Ty Warner's widely successful line of "Beanie Products." Complete with many personal interviews of those close to Ty and. Franklin the Mouse said Furry Greed-Fueled Delusion. Witnessing the mania during its heyday was confusing to me. Adults buying cute little stuffed toys as an investment strategy made no sense. I could understand a few rare items being of value but we're talking millions of these suckers being horded by people. Mr. Bissonnette'
. He lives in New York City. He has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe Magazine, the Daily Beast, and Bloomberg, among others. Zac Bissonnette wrote two acclaimed bestsellers before his twenty-fourth birthday: Debt-Free U and How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents