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There are striking similarities between the 18th century South Sea bubble and the crypto’s rise and demise.
The South Sea Bubble in Satire and Farce: After the crash, the public could choose among ballads, songs, farces, poems, broadsides, pamphlets, satirical prints, and even playing cards that offered ...
The dotcom bubble of the late 1990s led to the dotcom bust. The South Sea Bubble of 1720 cost Sir Isaac Newton millions of pounds in today’s money. But how exactly can we define a market bubble?
A notable collection was the one sold recently in London, made up of pamphlets, prints, engraved portraits, caricatures, and documents all pertaining to the famous South Sea Bubble and other schemes.
Chancellor recalled how the South Sea Company, a company associated with a notorious investment bubble in the 1700s, “slipped shares to King George I and bought up members of parliament”.
We're in the aftermath of an extraordinary bubble in cryptocurrencies and the collapse of FTX is a defining chapter of the industry's turmoil.
Drawing from historical events like the South Sea Bubble, Munger explains why such bubbles are inevitable but regrets their negative impact on society.
Reading Nikou Asgari’s piece on the stablecoin boom (Report, September 5), with its subheading “Rush prompts critics to warn that tokens are a ‘novelty’ bet with little use beyond trading ...
Coronavirus has caused a great deal of stock market turbulence and, somewhat inevitably, comparisons have been made to the volatility caused by the South Sea Bubble 300 years ago.
Russell T. Davies thinks (and kind of hopes) the streaming bubble will burst Davies wants more shows that “don’t cost a fortune but teach people how to make TV.” ...