Dutch toughen up for downturn 
News analysis: Report from the European housing market
By Bradley Inman, Thursday, October 23, 2008.
Flickr photo by jimg944.AMSTERDAM -- Allegedly, the first recorded speculative financial bubble occurred in the Netherlands in the 1630s when, according to Wikipedia, tulip contracts sold for 20 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. When tulip prices came crashing down so did the economy, according to reports that have not been sufficiently documented for historians to conclude exactly what occurred.
During a visit to Amsterdam with more than 50 local real estate leaders, those in attendance were a bit skeptical of that history, but were keenly aware of and on top of every aspect of the current financial mess
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