Jay Gould: From 50 Cents to Black Friday and America's Most Hated Man
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jay Gould arrived at a rural school with 50 cents and a sack of clothes. He died with a $72 mill...
7 Loka 21min
Japan's Asset Bubble: When the Imperial Palace Outpriced California
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the 1989 peak of Japan's asset price bubble, the grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace were es...
7 Loka 13min
Jim Fisk: Circus Runaway, Black Friday Gold Raider, Murdered at 36
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In January 1872, tens of thousands of working-class New Yorkers wept in the streets for James Fi...
7 Loka 22min
Jakob Fugger the Rich: The Banker Who Bought an Emperor's Crown
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jakob Fugger, born in Augsburg in 1459, amassed a fortune equal to about 2 percent of the Europe...
7 Loka 23min
The Panic of 1907: How J.P. Morgan Locked Bankers In to Save the Economy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In October 1907, Otto Heinze tried to corner the stock of United Copper and failed within hours....
7 Loka 21min
Ivan Boesky: The Insider Trading Scandal That Inspired Gordon Gekko
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ivan Boesky told graduating business students at UC Berkeley that the desire for wealth was heal...
7 Loka 21min
Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Whose Facts Broke Up Standard Oil
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Ida Tarbell grew up in the Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s, surrounded by gushing wells, de...
7 Loka 21min
John Sutter: The Fugitive Whose California Empire Was Ruined by Gold
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Johann August Sutter was a failed Swiss shopkeeper facing debtor's prison when he abandoned his ...
7 Loka 25min
