A bestselling journalist delivers the never-before-told story of the plush animal craze that became the tulip mania of the 1990sIn the annals of consumer crazes, nothing compares to Beanie Babies. In just three years, collectors who saw the...

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned b...