The South Sea Bubble, 1720
Peter Dickson pores over the wreckage of 18th century England's most infamous financial scandal.
“The vast inundation of the South Sea,” wrote the poet Alexander Pope to his friend John Caryll in December 1720, “has drowned all, except a few unrighteous men, contrary to the deluge.” His metaphor was apt.
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