Diese Episode ist besonders bekannt, weil die Lehren daraus von dem schottischen Journalisten Charles Mackay in seinem 1841 erschienen Buch Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds(auf Deutsch erschienen unter dem Titel Zeichen und Wunder.
This episode is particularly well known because its lessons were popularized by the Scottish journalist Charles Mackay in his 1841 book, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.