Money feed
1720
France’s Mississippi Bubble collapsed in 1720, the same year as Britain’s South Sea Bubble. John Law’s scheme linked colonial investment, government debt and paper money in a single vulnerable financial system.
Rent
Rent is the largest revenue category McDonald's reports from franchised restaurants, ahead of royalties. That does not mean rent is most of all corporate revenue, or that every franchise follows the same property arrangement.
1889
Nintendo traces its origins to Fusajiro Yamauchi making hanafuda playing cards in Kyoto in 1889. Its first home video game machines arrived in 1977, nearly nine decades later.