
The Mithridatization of Financial Markets
14/08/2025
2 min
In the first century BC, the Persian king Mithridates VI was known to regularly consume small doses of poison, thereby accustoming his body and developing a resistance to toxic substances. Mithridatization is the act of ingesting increasing doses of a toxic pr ...
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