
Crashes and Crises: Lessons from a History of Financial Disasters
The South Sea Bubble
Documentary · Aug 17, 2018 · 28 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E5: Relive the "Wild West" days of the British stock market in the early 18th century, when a financially-strapped government and a public craze for investing created ideal conditions for one of history's most brazen stock manipulators. Trace John Blunt's use of the South Sea Company - and bribery - to generate a stock-buying frenzy, making him fabulously rich - until the bubble inevitably burst.
Documentary · Aug 17, 2018 · 28 min