# 64: The South Sea Company

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Podcast: [Desperate Acts of Capitalism Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/desperate-acts-of-capitalism-podcast-700916)
Published: 2025-02-28T00:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

On this episode of DAOC, the gang goes back in time. Join us as we venture to the invention of speculation markets itself to explore one of history's first desperate acts of capitalism: The South Sea Bubble. Edited and thumbnail by Noah JOIN US ON PATREON FOR EARLY EPISODE RELEASES, BONUS CONTENT, AND MORE: www.patreon.com/desperateactsofcapitalism BIG THINGS ARE COMING Sources: Great Bubbles, Ross B Emmett, The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble by Malcom Balen, The South Sea Bubble by Helen J Paul

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