How a financial crash created Britain’s first prime minister | The Story of Money | 15 Jul 2026 | The Story of Money with Gillian Tett & Robin Wigglesworth | Financial Times
- > "Make Elon Musk look like an amateur... the stock shot up in 1720 from 100 or so, 110 at the beginning of the year up to a thousand by August and back down to the low hundreds by December." - **Thomas Levenson** [[05:02](https://youtu.be/anGOn7sL6d4&t=05m02s)] - > "The bubble is presented as this moral disaster and this sort of insight into the fundamental evils at the heart of capitalism... the thing that's…

