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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

So named because the rapid expansion and sudden collapse of investment resembled the blowing up and bursting of a bubble.
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PRONUNCIATION OF SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

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South Sea Bubble is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SOUTH SEA BUBBLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

South Sea Bubble

South Sea Company

The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public–private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt. The company was also granted a monopoly to trade with South America, hence its name. At the time it was created, Britain was involved in the War of the Spanish Succession and Spain controlled South America. There was no realistic prospect that trade would take place and the company never realised any significant profit from its monopoly. Company stock rose greatly in value as it expanded its operations dealing in government debt, peaking in 1720 before collapsing to little above its original flotation price; this became known as the South Sea Bubble. The Bubble Act 1720, which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company itself before its collapse. This was an effort to prevent the increasing competition for investors, which it saw from companies springing up around it. A considerable number of people were ruined by the share collapse, and the national economy greatly reduced as a result.

Definition of South Sea Bubble in the English dictionary

The definition of South Sea Bubble in the dictionary is the financial crash that occurred in 1720 after the South Sea Company had taken over the national debt in return for a monopoly of trade with the South Seas, causing feverish speculation in their stocks.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

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South Orkney Islands
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South Sea Company
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

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Synonyms and antonyms of South Sea Bubble in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «South Sea Bubble» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOUTH SEA BUBBLE

Find out the translation of South Sea Bubble to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of South Sea Bubble from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «South Sea Bubble» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

南海泡沫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Mar del Sur de la burbuja
570 millions of speakers

English

South Sea Bubble
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

दक्षिण सागर बुलबुला
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

فقاعة بحر الجنوب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

South Sea Bubble
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Mar do Sul da bolha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দক্ষিণ সাগর বুদবুদ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

South Sea Bubble
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bubble Laut Selatan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

South Sea Bubble
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

南洋バブル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

남해 버블
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bubble Sea South
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Biển Bubble
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தென் கடல் குமிழி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दक्षिण समुद्र बबल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Güney Deniz Kabarcığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

South Sea Bubble
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

South Sea Bubble
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

South Sea Bubble
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

South Sea Bubble
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

South Sea Bubble
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Suid- Sea borrel
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

South Sea Bubble
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

South Sea Bubble
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of South Sea Bubble

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOUTH SEA BUBBLE»

The term «South Sea Bubble» is normally little used and occupies the 134.870 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SOUTH SEA BUBBLE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOUTH SEA BUBBLE»

Discover the use of South Sea Bubble in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to South Sea Bubble and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of Its Origins and ...
The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble.
Helen Paul, 2013
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The First Crash: Lessons from the South Sea Bubble
This book is therefore aimed at all those with an interest in the behavior of stock markets.
Richard Dale, 2014
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A Very English Deceit: The Secret History of the South Sea ...
The ebook of the critically acclaimed popular history book: the story of the South Sea Bubble which in Balen’s hands becomes a morality tale for our times.
Malcolm Balen, 2012
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Charles Mackay. The book chronicles its targets in three parts: "National Delusions," "Peculiar Follies," and "Philosophical Delusions.
Charles MacKay, 2012
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Riding the South Sea Bubble
This paper presents a case study of a well-informed investor in the South Sea bubble.
Peter Temin, Hans-Joachim Voth, 2004
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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry
The South Sea Bubble After 1714 the Whigs steadily consolidated their position by measures such as the Septennial Act of 1716, restricting elections to every seven years. Both the Tories and backbench Country Whigs accused them of ...
John Sitter, 2001
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Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century ...
... government annuities - such as long- and short-term annuities or lottery tickets - the opportunity to convert them to company stock.3 No fixed rate of exchange was determined, so the plan relied on Women, credit, and the South Sea Bubble.
Catherine Ingrassia, 1998
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Anglo-American Securities Regulation: Cultural and Political ...
This sequence of events, the first stock market crash in English history, has been known ever since as the South Sea Bubble. In the profusion of literature criticizing the market during and after the Bubble, opposition to the market crystallized ...
Stuart Banner, 2002
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Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
This book offers market-fundamental explanations for the three most famous bubbles: the Dutch Tulipmania (1634-1637), the Mississippi Bubble (1719-1720), and the closely connected South Sea Bubble (1720).
Peter M. Garber, 2001
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Classic survey of crowd psychology takes an illuminating, entertaining look at three historic swindles: "The Mississippi Scheme," "The South-Sea Bubble," and "Tulipomania.
Charles Mackay, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOUTH SEA BUBBLE»

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Bondholder goes on the attack over War Loans payout
“WE WILL have paid off the debts incurred in the South Sea Bubble, the First World War, the debt issued by Henry Pelham, George Goschen and William ... «The Sunday Times, Jul 15»
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Howard Marks South Sea Bubble Memo From 2000
In doing so, it recounts the story of "the South Sea Bubble" and provides a backdrop against which I'd like to examine some of the events of today. The South ... «ValueWalk, May 15»
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That Debt From 1720? Britain's Payment Is Coming
After that financial crash in 1720, called the South Sea Bubble, the British government was forced to undertake a bailout that eventually left several million ... «New York Times, Dec 14»
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UK to refinance perpetual debt dating to WWI, South Sea Bubble
Calling it “a sign of our fiscal credibility,” UK Chancellor George Osborne announced plans to take on £1.9 billion in debt to “pay off” previous debt issued to help ... «Resource Clips, Dec 14»
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The South Sea Bubble and Ireland by Patrick Walsh
Walsh attempts to show that Irish investment in the South Sea Bubble was significant. PGM Dickson's magisterial 1967 work The Financial Revolution in ... «Irish Times, Dec 14»
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Speculating in Bubbles With Stan Druckenmiller and Sir Isaac Newton
Mr. Druckenmiller's actions in the late 1990s/early 2000s are reminiscent of Isaac Newton during the South Sea Bubble (from a 2009 article by MIT professor ... «GuruFocus.com, Nov 14»
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Paying the price of war: Britain makes good on historic debts
Some of the debt being repaid relates to the South Sea Bubble crisis of 1720, the Napoleonic and Crimean wars, the abolition of slavery and the Irish potato ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
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Ten things we learned this week
These bonds also relate to the South Sea Bubble crisis of 1720, the Napoleonic and Crimean wars and the Irish potato famine that began in 1845 and lasted for ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
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Bubble or brilliance? Either way Audio Pixels is on a roll
But to this writer's ears it all sounds a bit like a line from the South Sea ... might of the Spanish Empire, which is why it became known as the South Sea Bubble. «Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 14»
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David Blanchflower: Britain has taken longer to recover from …
... in June 2010 “this Budget will kill the recovery stone dead”. And it did. Not since the South Sea Bubble in 1720 has Britain seen such a prolonged recovery. «The Independent, Aug 14»

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