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The South Sea Bubble: When Dreams of Gold Ended in Ruin
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The South Sea Bubble: When Dreams of Gold Ended in Ruin
This is a special IBKR Podcast, the second installment in our series following The Tulip Bubble: When Flowers Cost More Than Houses. The South Sea Bubble explores how a wave of speculation, corruption and mass delusion turned a debt-restructuring scheme into one of history’s most infamous financial manias, leaving fortunes destroyed and lessons that still resonate today.
Imagine the brightest scientist in history, able to decipher the secrets of the universe, losing all his fortune by a financial error. That’s the story of Isaac Newton and the bubble of the South Seas, one of the first cases of speculative madness in modern history. It wasn’t a simple episode... Read more
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