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In 1720, the British government had a debt it could not repay and a solution nobody had tried before. It sold the debt to a company, gave that company a royal monopoly, and let it sell shares to the public. In six months, those shares went from one hundred pounds to over one thousand. Isaac Newton lost twenty thousand pounds. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was sent to the Tower of London.

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This is the financial autopsy of the South Sea Bubble — the sovereign debt monetization mechanism that turned Britain's unpayable war debt into a speculative mania, three hundred years before quantitative easing made the same trade the standard tool of every central bank in the world. We dissect the Parliamentary capture, the manufactured demand, the reflexivity mechanism that made the price self-sustaining, and why the cure — the Bubble Act — was more expensive than the disease.

South Sea Bubble 1720 | sovereign debt | Parliamentary capture | Isaac Newton | Bank of England | speculative bubble | quantitative easing | financial history | joint stock company | British financial history | debt monetization | financial autopsy | reflexivity | market mania | GP/LP analysis

Every collapse has a pattern. We dissect it. Layer by layer.— Financial Forensics Labs