FTP, name this market crash caused by the failure of a company that bought a lot of English national debt before its 1720 bust -- er, burst.
Who was to blame?  Eventual Postmaster-General James Craggs; Edward Gibbon, the grandfather of the historian; a penniless Scotsman named John Paterson; Robert Harley the Earl of Oxford; and above all, arch-swindler John Blunt.  Who profited?  James Stanhope and George I, at least for a while, but everybody lost big, and Robert Walpole forced Parliament to compensate for some of the losses.  FTP, name this market crash caused by the failure of a company that bought a lot of English national debt before its 1720 bust -- er, burst.
Who was to blame?  Eventual Postmaster-General James Craggs; Edward Gibbon, the grandfather of the historian; a penniless Scotsman named John Paterson; Robert Harley the Earl of Oxford; and above all, arch-swindler John Blunt.  
The South Sea Bubble