Three centuries apart, one playbook unfolds – first in candle-lit coffee houses, then in glowing screens worldwide.
In this episode of The Market Playbook, we trace the lineage from the legendary South Sea Bubble of 1720 to today’s meme stock frenzy. Explore how social hype, leverage, and crowd psychology create the same cycle of boom and bust — only with new tech and new hype.
What you’ll learn: • How speculators clustered in 18th-century London and traded futures in a shadow of promise. • Why modern meme stocks echo the same patterns of belief, mania and collapse. • The one trigger that turns crowd confidence into a crash.
Tune in and discover how history didn’t end — it rebooted.
7 min