England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt - Extra History - Part 1

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an accessible, easily digestible introduction to the South Sea Bubble whenever financial manias, ICOs or overvalued companies come up.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Extra History

Topic

south sea bubble

Format

explainer

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2018–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• It is always amazing to me that humans are just so predictably greedy . You'd have thought that we'd have learned any damned thing from history. For other readers with a bit of free time this Friday afternoon, XtraHistory has a great series on the …

• If you liked this story, I also highly recommend the YouTube Extra History miniseries on the South Sea Bubble, which is a very similar contemporary scheme in the U.K. [VIDEO]

• For those who want an accessible introduction to the South Sea Bubble, Extra History has a video series on the causes and aftermath: [VIDEO]