The South Sea Bubble

English debt as a very simple, almost mechanical obligation becomes completely transformed into basically what we would identify as the modern fixed income market. War had become steadily more expensive and became dramatically so over the last decade of the 17th and into the 18th century. It is a moment of creation where war, thinking, necessity all come in and create before we get to the South Sea bubble.

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