{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"The South Sea Bubble: How England Lost Its Mind in 1720","description":"Imagine a company so trusted, its very existence felt like a royal guarantee. In early eighteenth-century London, belief in the South Sea Company spread faster than reason could catch it. But beneath the Parliament-backed facade lay a flaw that would cost a nation its sanity.\r\n\r\nEngland in the early seventeen hundreds was a country learning to borrow on faith—and sometimes, to mistake faith for proof. The South Sea Company did not begin as a business hungry for profit. It was born as an instrument of state finance, designed to absorb the burdens of war and empire. Parliament gave it a crown, ministers gave it legitimacy, and investors gave it money—long before the company had anything to trade. That is where this story breaks from the usual script of fraud. The South Sea Company was created by statute, not by subterfuge. It promised a solution to public debt, cloaked in patriotism. But the danger wasn’t hidden in a back room. It was written into the company’s bones.\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 30 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thefraudarchive.com/fraud/south-sea-company","author_name":"The Archive Network"}