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A British stock bubble centered on the South Sea Company, granted a monopoly on trade with South Ame...

Founded in 1698 when John Castaing began posting stock and commodity prices at Jonathans Coffee Hous...

A speculative bubble in British railway shares in the 1840s. Parliament authorized 8,000 miles of ne...

A period of intense land speculation during the Parliamentary Enclosure Acts from 1750 to 1860. Comm...

The UK voted to leave the EU on June 23, 2016. The pound fell 10 percent overnight, its largest one ...

The day Britain crashed out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. George Soros bet 10 billion aga...

The British East India Company was originally a trading company that evolved into a de facto colonia...

The London Stock Exchange crashed in September 1929, two months before Wall Street. The crash was tr...

The Big Bang of October 27, 1986 deregulated the London Stock Exchange. It eliminated fixed commissi...

Charles Dickens witnessed Railway Mania and satirized it in his 1846 novel Dombey and Son. The chara...

Marine insurance emerged in the coffee houses of London in the late 17th century. Edward Lloyds coff...