PREVIEW: Epochs #95 | Historical Financial Crises

Feb 26, 2023, 01:00 PM

This week Beau and Dan chat about two different financial bubbles from the past. The ‘Tulip Mania’ of Holland in the seventeenth century, where the value of tulip bulbs became insanely inflated, only for the market to utterly crash overnight; and the legendary ‘South Sea Bubble’ in the eighteenth century, which saw the first true crisis on the London exchange, ending in disaster for all concerned. A classic case of boom and bust. Can we learn lessons from these examples?