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  Investment History Part 4: Railway Mania — Why Revolutionary Technologies Often Create Investment Bubbles The Railway Revolution, Investor Excitement, and the Birth of a Historic Bubble One of the most fascinating patterns in investment history is that transformative innovations are often accompanied by speculative manias. Whenever a technology appears capable of changing the world, investors begin imagining the future. They envision economic growth, new industries, rising productivity, and enormous wealth creation. In many cases, these expectations are not entirely wrong. Some innovations truly reshape societies and become foundations of future prosperity. The challenge is that financial markets rarely wait for the future to arrive. Investors tend to price future success into assets long before the actual economic benefits are realized. As optimism spreads, valuations rise. Rising valuations attract more investors. New investors push prices even higher. Eventually, expectations ...