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by giergirey 1975 days ago
Perhaps everything comes around again once sufficient people have forgotten the lessons from last time - e.g. maybe the story from the South Sea Bubble in 1720 of "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is" was an early SPAC ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company#Quotations_p...