 Complete the following phrase:  In August 1688 Joseph de la Vega lived through the collapse of the Dutch East India Company Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC and Dutch West India Company Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie, or GWC, which ficially ruined him. Likewise, Coenraad van Beuningen also lost half a million guilder in 16878 through speculation in VOC shares, and wrote letters to the ecclesiastical authorities about the end of time and painted Hebrew or Kabbalistic signs on his house. The funding of the 