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Early Access! Chapter 5: One Little Green Ledger
🕑 Added 2015-04-24 16:43:17 +0000 UTC Now that the South Sea Bubble has popped, what happens to the people who profited from it? It all depends on one man with a little green ledger. P.S. If you're a $5 patron, make sure you check your feed! The vote for a future topic is going on now, and last month many of you did not see the notification, so please look for it!
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Extra History
To me, this is why I've always loved history so much. When done well, it's just "Story time for grown-ups." And I loved story time!
Extra History
Hahaha! Please do; then Walpole's infamy will live on in modern memes. ;)
Extra History
Sounds like James was working from a physical version of the text, but I'm looking for an electronic version and I'll post it on the Patron feed if I find one!
Farzad Mansouri
Well that was depressing, history rhythms again.
Alexander Medeiros
I would love to read the Walpole letters you spoke of. Where can I do that?
Michael Jebbett
The South Sea Company has a new name now. It's called Wall Street, and it's doing the same crap it did centuries ago.
Michael Waisfeld
To be fair, I'm just surprised nobody lost his head for this whole "crashing the national economy" business. And after all this shenanigans England still somehow ended up ruling most of the world.
Alan Haskayne
I can't believe that you guys make the political maneuvering of World War One, and the economic turmoil of the South Seas Bubble as exciting as the Sengoku, or Roman warfare
Stephen
Hilariously presented. "It was Walpole."
Teollinc
and this folks is why extreme financing can be rather cool. I really am amazed the amount of craziness that came from this chapter of history
Keith Richards
i'm going to have to start bringing "it was walpole!" into conversations
Christian Jensen
Nice tie-up to the South Sea Bubble. I have really enjoyed this series, and it has been a pleasure to see how you have managed to make a subject that could very easy have been dull or dreary into something like a bi-weekly heist mini-series
Stormy Weather
That was fantastic! I love the way you guys present these things!
Mapguru
"Someone.." It was always Walpole.
Bibi
"It's a good lesson... I hope we learn it someday". Classic.
Zoe Alleyne
"It was walpole". This was hilarious and informative, I loved this series guys and can't wait for the next! <3
