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South Sea remembrances

12 December 2019 By Edward Chancellor

Next year marks the tricentennial of England’s most notorious speculative mania. Even the great mathematician Sir Isaac Newton couldn’t resist The South Sea Company’s charms. Unicorn and cryptocurrency crazes suggest financial practices haven’t improved much over the centuries.

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