1973 Arab Oil Embargo: Sadat's Backgammon, Nickel Grass and Empty Pumps
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the late 1960s a barrel of oil hovered around $1.80, coal's share of American industry had fa...
18 Loka 19min
Deepwater Horizon: A Dead Battery, 62,000 Barrels a Day and $65 Billion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon rig was drilling BP's Macondo Prospect 41 miles off Lou...
18 Loka 22min
1997 Asian Crisis Fallout: Suharto's Fall and Hong Kong's $15B Stock Gamble
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1997 Asian financial crisis, nicknamed the Tom Yum Kung crisis, followed a boom in which Sou...
18 Loka 26min
Russell Solomon's Tower Records: A Drugstore Corner to Nine Floors in Tokyo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tower Records began in 1941 when teenager Russell Solomon sold used records in a corner of his f...
18 Loka 20min
Trans World Airlines: Wooden Wings, Howard Hughes and the Karabu Deal
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Transcontinental and Western Air was formed in 1930 when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown ...
18 Loka 24min
Kmart: Kresge's Dime Stores, Blue Light Specials and Edward Lampert
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sebastian S. Kresge sold tinware to all 19 of Frank Winfield Woolworth's stores before putting h...
18 Loka 20min
Pruitt-Igoe: Skip-Stop Elevators, Rent-Funded Upkeep and the 1972 Implosion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the late 1940s St. Louis had more than 85,000 families crowded into deteriorating tenements, ...
18 Loka 21min
Panic of 1837: Jackson's Specie Circular, a Cotton Crash and Hessian Flies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From 1834 to 1836 the United States boomed on silver from trade with Mexico and China, federal r...
18 Loka 21min
