Desperate Acts of Capitalism
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64: The South Sea Company
🕑 Added 2025-02-21 20:00:10 +0000 UTCOn this episode of DAOC, the gang goes back in time. Join us as we venture to the invention of speculation markets itself to explore one of history's first desperate acts of capitalism: The South Sea Bubble.
Edited and thumbnail by Noah
Sources:
Great Bubbles, Ross B Emmett, The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble by Malcom Balen, The South Sea Bubble by Helen J Paul
Comments
Ardgonian
YESSSSSSSSSSS I am SO excited for this one!
Ace Hazel
Welp. Glad that we don't have these kinda problems in our modern day anymore.
