England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt - Extra History - Part 1

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kenneth · 2019-07 · Strong recommendation

If you liked this story, I also highly recommend the YouTube Extra History miniseries on the South Sea Bubble, which is a very similar contemporary scheme in the U.K. [VIDEO]

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Balgair · 2018-04 · Strong recommendation

It is always amazing to me that humans are just so predictably greedy . You'd have thought that we'd have learned any damned thing from history. For other readers with a bit of free time this Friday afternoon, XtraHistory has a great series on the 'South Sea Company' Bubble and the always interesting First British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole: [VIDEO]

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duttish · 2025-12 · Recommendation

I'll throw the British South Sea Trading Company into the ring for that title of most overvalued company ever. It had the king himself on the board. The company value represented a decent fraction of the national gdp at the time. All without actually never producing anything of actual value. It was just bribes and speculation all the way through. It's wild. [LINK] Extra History did a more easily digestible series, which was how I learned about it in the first place. [VIDEO]

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