EDINBURGH—The last time Scotland went to the capital markets, it didn’t work out too well.
It was 1695. Nearly 1,500 merchants and aristocrats bet around a quarter of the country’s wealth establishing a colony on a mosquito-infested ribbon of land separating the Caribbean from the Pacific in an attempt to corner the global trade in spices, gold and anything else that could be bought, sold or stolen.
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