Margin Debt and the 1929 Crash: $8.5 Billion in Loans and Black Tuesday
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By the fall of 1929, brokers had lent more than $8.5 billion to ordinary investors buying stocks...
18 Loka 24min
Lyft: From Zimride and Pink Mustaches to a $237 Million Driver Settlement
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lyft began with Logan Green's long drives between UC Santa Barbara and his girlfriend in Los Ang...
18 Loka 19min
Louis Vuitton's Monogram: The 1896 Anti-Counterfeit Pattern Turned Icon
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Louis Vuitton opened his Paris shop in 1854 and by 1858 had introduced the flat-topped trunk, bu...
18 Loka 21min
Leveraged Buyouts: Gibson Greetings' $66M Payday to the RJR Nabisco War
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In January 1982 a group led by former Treasury Secretary William E. Simon bought greeting card m...
18 Loka 26min
Kozmo.com: Free One-Hour Delivery, a $150M Starbucks Pact and Locked Doors
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Kozmo.com launched in New York City in March 1998, founded by two young investment bankers, Jose...
18 Loka 17min
High-Yield Debt: Fallen Angels, CDO Tranches and Greece Downgraded to Junk
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Junk bonds, or high-yield debt, are bonds rated below investment grade by agencies such as Moody...
18 Loka 24min
John Rigas and Adelphia: $2.3 Billion in Hidden Debt, the Sabres and Prison
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1952 John Rigas and his brother Gus paid $300 for a cable television franchise in Coudersport...
18 Loka 22min
Jay Cooke: Union War Bonds by Telegraph, the 1873 Crash and a Silver Mine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jay Cooke, widely called America's first major investment banker, was born in 1821 in Sandusky, ...
18 Loka 21min
