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The Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814
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10:34 - 12:42 (02:08)

This episode talks about the stock exchange fraud that occurred in London in 1814, orchestrated by Theodore Hook, a prominent British man of letters. Hook purposely brought his friend by a house to make it the most talked-about house and bet a Guinea on it, and people are still discussing it 200 years later.

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