The wildest story from the Mississippi Bubble, the subject of this article:<p>"The Paris financial district at times became so agitated that soldiers had to be sent in to restore order. Another news article told of a hunchback who grew rich by charging traders for the use of his back as a desk for signing paperwork! All of Paris had gone mad, while rising prices and the excessive issue of bank notes cast a rosy light of false prosperity over the entire scene. It was at this point that the word “millionaire” first came into common usage."<p>www.thecurrencycollector.com/pdfs/John_Laws_Banque_Royale.pdf
This refers to a specific Scotsman, John Law, not the newspaper The Scotsman.<p><a href="https://www.scotsman.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scotsman.com/</a>
Panics, Manias and Crashes [1] tells a good story about him and his schemes.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367596.Manias_Panics_and_Crashes" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/367596.Manias_Panics_and...</a>
The gentleman practically invented the stock market at the time. His biography is a very intriguing read.<p><<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law_(economist)</a>>