**HISTORY REPEATS: Tech Founder’s Collapse Uncovers Eerie Parallel to 18th Century “Bubble Baron”**

HISTORY REPEATS: Tech Founder’s Collapse Uncovers Eerie Parallel to 18th Century “Bubble Baron”

In a twist that has internet sleuths and historians buzzing, the dramatic downfall of AI startup founder Alex Vane—arrested this morning for an alleged $2 billion fraud—bears an uncanny signature to the 1720 collapse of John Law, the Scottish economist who crashed the French economy with paper currency.

“It’s the same playbook,” says Dr. Miriam Holt, a historian of financial manias. “Law charmed the regent, promised infinite growth from the Mississippi Company, and printed money until the bubble popped. Vane did the same with ‘Quantum Cortex’—inflating valuation with phantom patents and AI hype.”

The smoking gun? A recovered 1717-style “promissory chain” notebook, where Vane allegedly scribbled marginalia from Law’s memoirs. His last tweet—“Don’t fight the current. Be the current.”—is now being analyzed as a coded confession.

Has history merely changed its clothes? The #VaneLawParallel hashtag is already trending among economic historians and true-crime fans alike.