From Parliamentary acts to satirical prints, the South Sea Bubble Collection at Baker Library reveals economic, political, cultural, and social narratives of the investor frenzy and ensuing financial ...

When you couple this with margin purchases of South Sea Company stock on as little as 10%, you being to see the problem. Add on bribery and corruption and the entire scheme was doomed to failure.

April 5 (Bloomberg) -- The bubble of 1720 precipitatedEngland’s first stock-market crash. In August of that year,shares in the South Sea Company reached a peak of 1,000 poundsand dropped to 150 ...

The South Sea Bubble of 1720 arose out of an innovation in finance. Is blockchain heading down the same path, asks John Stepek.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the South Sea Bubble, the speculation mania in early 18th-century England which ended in the financial ruin of many of its investors. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...

There are striking similarities between the 18th century South Sea bubble and the crypto’s rise and demise.

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?

Explore the five biggest economic bubbles in history, such as the tulip mania, the South Sea bubble and the dot-com bubble, including their causes and consequences.

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. This was the moment ...