Voltaire would have been referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company and John Law: http

Voltaire would have been referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Company and John Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_%28economist%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_%28economist%29 Read about it last night. The first stock market bubble. Far out... one Ken Layesque figure named John Law took over the entire French economy with his pyramid scheme, giving France its first paper money, for a while.