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From garden decor to a precious tradable asset...but why tulips??
Transcript
- 00:02
okay Shmoopers last one of this tulipmania beanie baby mashup set
- 00:08
question which choice gives the strongest evidence where he can surf to [text on screen]
- 00:10
the three question can so yet again we got a scroll back it asked how do you
- 00:14
like that lost their infant god is reading passage one after definition
- 00:16
developers end in a second a graphic passive to alright so saying which
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- 00:20
choice gives strongest evidence for the answer so we got to actually skim the
- 00:24
passage all these lines twenty nine thirty forty one thirty five yeah we're
- 00:28
gonna skim all those areas and just go a-hunting alright well hmm looking like
- 00:37
a lot of defaulter here defaulters were yeah and the correct answer is in fact C
- 00:41
well we know rich people love their gardens so if they're digging them up [garden of tulips]
- 00:46
well something is definitely going wrong people forgot the pride of placing
- 00:51
tulips in their gardens and instead bought them solely as investments [tulip garden]
- 00:56
flowers had become an asset to be treated rather than a possession to be [painting of people buying tulips]
- 01:00
admired and envied and loved like a dog this sentence shows that loss of value
- 01:06
so yeah that's it it's C and the others well foreign investment came because the [text on screen]
- 01:11
flowers had lost their intrinsic value a so get rid of that investors were
- 01:15
interested in them because the bubble had already started the prices of other [soap bubble burst]
- 01:19
items or grows in tandem with tulip prices over the beef and yeah these [rockets in space]
- 01:22
items already had their own value though the defaulters ruined by the tulip mania
- 01:28
Oh may have regained their appreciation of the beauty of flowers so after all [man with empty pockets]
- 01:33
they were left with nothing but tulips and dirt what a great way to end this
- 01:38
passage
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