The most famous events associated with this organization directly followed its assumption of the national debt, and First Lord of the Treasury Robert Walpole was elevated to prime minister after its fall.
This entity's success was responsible for the philanthropic campaign of Thomas Guy and prompted fake Globe Permits to be printed on playing cards. Richard Steele's pamphlet the "Crisis of Property" warned that this entity, which torpedoed the careers of James Craggs the Elder and John Aislabie. was becoming too similar to an organization overseen by France's John Law and named for the (*) Mississippi. The most famous events associated with this organization directly followed its assumption of the national debt, and First Lord of the Treasury Robert Walpole was elevated to prime minister after its fall. For 10 points, name this company responsible for a namesake "bubble" in England in the early eighteenth century.
This entity's success was responsible for the philanthropic campaign of Thomas Guy and prompted fake Globe Permits to be printed on playing cards.
{South Sea} Company [or {South Sea} Bubble]