{"id":98119,"date":"2019-06-19T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/06\/19\/what-beanie-babies-taught-a-generation-about-the-horrors-of-boom-and-bust\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T13:41:56","slug":"what-beanie-babies-taught-a-generation-about-the-horrors-of-boom-and-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98119","title":{"rendered":"What Beanie Babies taught a generation about the horrors of boom and bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The frenzied investment in the 90s soft toys seems unlikely today, but as a child I bought into the craze with enthusiasmIn the late 2000s, the singer Lily Allen was asked to perform a streamed gig in exchange for \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of bitcoin. She told them: \u201cAs if.\u201d She later tweeted of the decision: \u201c#idiot.\u201dSuch investment horror stories are common: the offer you passed up on that would have set you up for life; the opportunity you thought too good to be true that \u2013 you realised only too late, with no small horror \u2013 eventually proved really that good. The question that keeps me up at night is: what if I had sold my Beanie Babies when the market was hot, instead of 15 years later? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/shortcuts\/2019\/jun\/19\/what-beanie-babies-taught-a-generation-about-the-horrors-of-boom-and-bust\" target=\"_blank\">What Beanie Babies taught a generation about the horrors of boom and bust<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frenzied investment in the 90s soft toys seems unlikely today, but as a child I bought into the craze with enthusiasmIn the late 2000s, the singer Lily Allen was asked to perform a streamed gig in exchange for \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of bitcoin. She told them: \u201cAs if.\u201d She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}