Among the many companies to go public in 1720 is—famously—one that advertised itself as "a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is".
"Under any circumstances, the credulous English investors who are invited to loan it two and a half millions in gold upon the security already described would do well to institute more rigid inquiries before purchasing."
Sounds compelling!
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