AIG: A Shanghai Startup, $441 Billion in Swaps and a $182 Billion Rescue
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!American International Group began on December 19, 1919, when American Cornelius Vander Starr op...
19 Okt 22min
ACH Network: Net Settlement, Batching and the 1968 BACS Launch
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!An automated clearing house, or ACH, is a computer-based electronic network that processes domes...
19 Okt 22min
William Randolph Hearst: Yellow Journalism, a Castle and the ESPN Stake
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1880 mining entrepreneur and future US senator George Hearst bought the San Francisco Daily E...
19 Okt 19min
General Dynamics: From the USS Holland to the Pentagon's Last Supper
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!General Dynamics traces its lineage to 1899, when businessman Isaac Leopold Rice bought John Phi...
19 Okt 24min
GEICO: Federal Workers, Benjamin Graham's SEC Slip and the Gecko
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!GEICO, the Government Employees Insurance Company, has never been a government agency. Leo Goodw...
19 Okt 22min
Block and Square: A Glass Artist's Lost Sale to AI Layoffs and Bitcoin
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Block began with a lost sale in 2009, when St. Louis glass artist Jim McKelvey could not take a ...
19 Okt 24min
Hughes Aircraft: From the Spruce Goose to the First Laser and DirecTV
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Hughes Aircraft Company was founded in 1934 in Glendale, California, as a division of the Hughes...
19 Okt 22min
Admiral Kuznetsov: One Name for a Soviet Commander, a Carrier and a Strait
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode starts from an unusual source: a Wikipedia disambiguation page for the name Admiral...
19 Okt 18min
