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Sunday, April 29, 2012

The trouble with Holland and Hollande

The trouble with Holland and Hollande

I am sure the Dutch Consul General in Turkey is extremely disappointed.

Despite being the top investment destination for Turkish businessmen in the last decade and relations going back centuries, the country is fairly unknown to Turks. For example, I found out only recently that the mother of all asset bubbles, the Dutch tulip mania, actually started with bulbs imported from the Ottoman Empire much earlier than the Ottomans’ own Tulip Era.

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