The last such stock mania occurred in May 1997 when Beijing Enterprises, a mainland Chinese company known as a red chip, issued shares amid a wave of euphoria over the return of Hong Kong to China.
After the government penalized half a dozen, mainly foreign, brokerage houses here under the new rules, short sellers began unwinding their positions by repurchasing shares, starting a wave of buying.
Autos, steel and textiles lost gobs of market share to a wave of imports.
If, in writing his diatribe, he was hoping to ride a wave of shared indignation, he could not have predicted that the tide would swiftly shift and come crashing over him.
Looking out the window of the room I had shared with Cesar, I experienced a wave of nausea so intense that I had to sit down for a few minutes with my head between my knees.
OSTENSIBLY Israel's latest assault on Gaza has brought the fractious Palestinians together in a shared wave of national sentiment.
But while the response to the event itself was small, as soon as pictures of the girls riding bikes were shared online, they were met with a wave of rage - mostly from men who were sharing the photos with captions along the lines of: "This is what this war has brought".
The clip has been re-shared across the internet following a wave of Islamophobic comments blaming Muslims for the terror attacks in Paris which killed 129 people.
The past few years have been a golden era for the world's bourses: their own share prices lifted on a wave of mergers; trading volumes, already rising smartly, sent into orbit as investors sought to profit from the volatility triggered by the credit crunch.But Ms Furse's joy is not unconfined.
And what we all want is to end bought government, to build a shared alignment of our values in a wave of energy.
