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What is Irrational Exuberance?

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Irrational exuberance is a phrase famously used by Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, in 1996 to describe the market bubble that coincided with the excitement around the commercialization of the internet in the late 1990s. The term is still used today to describe asset price bubbles driven by optimism.
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An asset price bubble driven by optimism.
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