The South Sea Bubble and Tulip Mania

tracy v wilson: I wanted to do an episode on the south sea bubble because that was its three hundredth anniversary. The south sea bubble happened alongside a similar bubble in france that was known as the mississippi bubble. In some ways these two financial bubbles were interconnected, and i thought about making this episode cover both of them. But it turns out that they're similar enough in big chunks of it that there were parts that almost repeated but not exactly.