How Playground Rumors and Artificial Scarcity Created the Billion-Dollar Beanie Baby Mania
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How Playground Rumors and Artificial Scarcity Created the Billion-Dollar Beanie Baby Mania

In the mid-1990s, a line of pellet-filled plush toys ignited one of the oddest speculative booms of the early internet. Beanie Babies, introduced by Ty Inc. in