South Sea Company

In 1711 he founded a joint stock company called the South Sea Company, and the Company was granted exclusive trading rights in Spanish South America.

Democratic Central - Front Page 2009

As Flanders pointed out, Sir Isaac Newton, mentor to Michael Gove, may have cracked the law of gravity, but when master of the Royal Mint he put his own money into the South Sea Company, took it out and put it back in just before the bubble burst in 1720.

Hugh Muir's Diary 2011

The South Sea Company, a government sponsored entity with a monopoly on trade, caused the South Sea Bubble in 1720.

Lessons of a Dow Decade Andy Kessler 2010

The South Sea Company, a government sponsored entity with a monopoly on trade, caused the South Sea Bubble in 1720.

Lessons of a Dow Decade Andy Kessler 2010

The South Sea Company, a government sponsored entity with a monopoly on trade, caused the South Sea Bubble in 1720.

Lessons of a Dow Decade Andy Kessler 2010

The bursting of the bubble in Paris forced some investors from the Continent to sell their shares in the South Sea Company.

Garrett Johnson: That's Not How Bubbles Work 2009

The South Sea Company wasn't nearly as am ambitious as Law's Mississippi Company, but it had the same premise.

Garrett Johnson: That's Not How Bubbles Work 2009

Among the worthy poor, for example, were victims of the "South Sea Bubble," formerly well-to-do and working people of all sorts who had speculated in South Sea Company stock when that company was granted a monopoly to trade with South America.

Chris Rodda: S.C. Legislature: Lord's Prayer a Legal Document 2008

Before long, Weaver's tangling with not only the lords of London's underworld but with the Bank of England and its rival, the South Sea Company.

Money And Murder In Old London Town 2008

The South Sea Company; the Tulip and Bulb Craze; the dot.com Crash…and all of them combined will be outdone by the Obama presidency.

The Saturday Word: The Staff Takes Shape - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008