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Example sentences for: manias
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As America's unofficial central banker, Morgan tried to rein in the excesses of the business cycle, stifle speculative manias, control corporate competition, keep the currency "sound," and stop panics.
There is a new book out that catalogues all sorts of financial manias over the years; you can't read it without seeing the obvious parallels to the Internet mania.
But amid the tales of rupiah and ringgit one also hears surprisingly old-fashioned references--to Charles Kindleberger's classic 1978 book Manias, Panics, and Crashes , and even to Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street (1873).
This is the Iron Law of Preteen Manias.
He tried in The Day of the Locust (1939), with its more or less realistic story of Hollywood down and outs, but mostly he succeeded in placing a veneer of hard-boiled literary conventions over his manias about women and sex, which makes him seem just as crazy as in his other books, but less aware of it, therefore less entertaining.