{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"John Law and the Mississippi Bubble: France's First Financial Collapse","description":"Picture a stranger in a city desperate for cash—armed with numbers, charm, and the wild idea that wealth could be conjured from trust alone. What happens when a gambler promises to save a kingdom by making paper into gold?\r\n\r\nJohn Law was no ordinary banker. Born in Edinburgh in sixteen seventy-one, he grew up watching his father, a goldsmith, handle other people’s fortunes. Law understood money—he also understood risk. He believed that wealth wasn’t just metal in a vault, but something shaped by confidence. When France staggered at the end of Louis the Fourteenth’s reign—broke from wars, battered by taxes, and starved for cash—Law saw his chance. France had power, but no liquidity. People hoarded coins, merchants distrusted the state’s paper, and the government’s debts left ministers searching for any fix. Into this confusion stepped Law, offering not lineage, but a system—a way to reshape belief itself.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 32 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/john-law","author_name":"The Archive Network"}