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South Sea Stock Price Bubble Is Good Reminder, Even 300 Years Later

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South Sea Stock Price Bubble Is Good Reminder, Even 300 Years Later
A statue of Sir Thomas Guy outside Guy's Hospital in London. Guy made his fortune through ownership of a very large amount of shares in the South Sea Co. Leon Neal/Getty Images
Tim Shaler
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Three hundred years ago, a stock market bubble popped that almost destroyed the United Kingdom.

Tim Shaler
Tim Shaler
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Tim Shaler is a professional investor and economist based in Southern California. He is a regular columnist for The Epoch Times, where he exclusively provides some of his original economic analysis.
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