Gold has allegedly been a bubble for 6,000 ... comparing bitcoin to the South Sea Company’s meteoric rise in the spring and summer of 1720 is so tempting. Here is a chart tracking the price ...

“The South Sea Bubble, 1720: Narratives of the First International Crash” was organized by Baker Library Special Collections A formative moment in financial history, the bubble was the result of ...

Once the South Sea Bubble had started to inflate, it attracted more naive investors and those who would prey upon them. While it was clear that the high prices were unsustainable, canny ...

In the aftermath of the South Sea Bubble of 1720, contemporaries reached ... the South Sea Company to push share prices as high as possible. As a consequence, over the spring and summer of 1720 ...

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 ...