Owning a country’s national debt, tax collection, overseas colonies and coin printing as a single person/company? Holy
Invent a revolutionary concept for money management. Overdo it for short term profit and create a financial bubble.
99% of people quit before Gambling away their country.
A P/E ratio of 50 sounds quaint today when we got Tesla rocking 177
The original r/wallstreetbets poster
Biggest inspiration. He is him. The godfather of gambling.
RIP John Law you would have loved Cryptocurrency
So he made his fortune by basically creating his own form of money. The world's first Crypto Bro
You're my favourite content creator. Sending love and good health from Botswana 🇧🇼
7:30: imagine if a modern country had a debt higher than its yearly economic output. That would be crazy…
I have a coin from the time of the crisis. A 1723 shilling. Interestingly, it has the engravings of the South Sea company on the tail end. The company that nearly bankrupted England around the same time.
16:44 "people trusted the scheme entirely" those words, when assembled in that order, is the most frightening 5 word sentence in English
To be fair his name wasn’t John Economics can’t blame him
"Although his scheme ended in spectacular failure [...] John's ideas would come to define how a modern economy would run." Hmmmmmm.
John Law, the arch-nemesis of Tim Crime
You are crushing it, sir 👊
Finally, a historical figure to be inspired by
effort into pronouncing the french stuff: 100% effort into pronouncing edinburgh: 0%
These videos are awesome, great narration, keep em coming brother
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