The Onion Futures Act: How Two Traders Cornered Onions and Got Banned
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By March 1956 a 50-pound bag of onions in Chicago sold for 10 cents, less than the burlap sack t...
7 Okt 16min
Multi-Level Marketing: Why 99 Percent of MLM Recruits Lose Money
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The message starts with a friendly hello from an old friend and ends with an invitation to be yo...
7 Okt 21min
The California Gold Rush: Who Really Got Rich and Who Paid the Price
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1842 Francisco Lopez dug up wild onions in Placerita Canyon and found a gold nugget in the ro...
7 Okt 25min
Cabbage Patch Kids: The Folk Artist Whose Idea Xavier Roberts Took
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the winter of 1983, parents shoved and fought in department store aisles for a soft doll with...
7 Okt 19min
The Superdollar: The Near-Perfect Fake $100 Bill Nobody Can Trace
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On a genuine $100 bill, a line at the base of the lamppost near Independence Hall is printed wea...
7 Okt 24min
The Beard Tax: Peter the Great's War on Russian Facial Hair
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1698 Tsar Peter I came home from a grand tour of Western Europe convinced that Russia had to ...
7 Okt 21min
Sumptuary Laws: When Purple Dye, Silk, and Gold Rings Were Crimes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Under the seventh century BCE laws of the Locrians, drafted by Zaleucus, a freeborn woman in gol...
7 Okt 25min
The Window Tax: How Britain Taxed Light and Air for 150 Years
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1696, under King William III, England needed money and faced a public that regarded an income...
7 Okt 20min
