Exxon Valdez: A Broken Radar, Corexit and a $507.5 Million Ruling
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On March 23, 1989, the Exxon Valdez left the Valdez Marine Terminal at 9:12 p.m. carrying 53.1 m...
18 Loka 25min
2008 Crash Revisited: Shadow Banks, Repo Runs and a $70 Trillion Pool
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode challenges the popular account that the 2008 crash was caused by government policy ...
18 Loka 19min
Packard Motor Car Company: A Spiteful Start to the Studebaker Merger
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1899 engineer James Ward Packard complained about his car to its maker, Alexander Winton, who...
18 Loka 21min
Latin America's Lost Decade: Petrodollar Loans, Volcker and the IMF
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the 1973 oil embargo quadrupled prices, oil exporters deposited huge petrodollar profits i...
18 Loka 22min
Tommy Hilfiger: A Bankrupt Elmira Shop to a Times Square Hangman Ad
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Tommy Hilfiger was born in 1951 in Elmira, New York, the second of nine children of a watchmaker...
18 Loka 20min
Chevrolet Corvair: A $4 Anti-Roll Bar, Ralph Nader and NHTSA's Verdict
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Facing the Volkswagen Beetle and compacts from AMC and Studebaker, Chevrolet general manager Ed ...
18 Loka 23min
United States v. Microsoft: Doctored Videos and an Overturned Breakup
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 1986 a workplace PC had better than a 90 percent chance of running Microsoft's operating syst...
18 Loka 22min
In-N-Out's Snyder Family: A Two-Way Speaker, Tragedy and No Franchises
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Harry and Esther Snyder opened In-N-Out in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948, using a two-way sp...
18 Loka 22min
