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How was the Beanie Baby era parallel to the Tulip Bubble? Similar events, only the TulipMania almost bankrupted Holland. Bean Babies only bankrupte...
SAT Reading: Classifying the Relationship Between Two Passages 179 Views
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How was the Beanie Baby era parallel to the Tulip Bubble? Similar events, only the TulipMania almost bankrupted Holland. Bean Babies only bankrupted a few obsessed housewives with way too few hobbies.
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- 00:02
okay Shmoopers more on the mash-up of beanie babies and tulip mania let's see
- 00:10
we go with this question I get asked which choice best states the [text on screen]
- 00:12
relationship between the two passages the answer is D economic trend similar
- 00:19
economic trend yet bubblicious baby well the tulip bubble and the beanie
- 00:22
baby bubble were similar events the beanie baby bubble took place on a [beanie baby and tulip balloons]
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- 00:27
smaller scale at least relative in the population but it followed the same
- 00:31
trajectory way high and then not like a century stock like it's down a hundred [bell curve]
- 00:36
percent they're both examples of a single economic phenomenon the economic [soap bubble floating]
- 00:40
bubble this is why you should stick to soap bubbles you know because when they
- 00:44
burst the only consequence is that everyone nearby gets a little cleaner
- 00:48
well economic bubbles are defined in passage to not passage one so it would a [text on screen]
- 00:52
they're both passages describe specific markets that experience the bubble
- 00:56
effect so there's no contradiction in sight so get rid of B both passages also [old dutch painting]
- 01:01
give examples of the events from the beginning to the end with neither one
- 01:05
really focusing exclusively on outcomes or origins so I'll get rid of C and the
- 01:09
answer is D it's an economic trend on both the ends and sometimes well the [text on screen]
- 01:14
trend it's just not your friend [bully hitting kid]
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