The Great Depression: How Gold, Tariffs, and Bank Runs Broke the World
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The 1929 crash was the match, not the powder keg. This episode looks past Black Thursday and Bla...
7 Okt 22min
Pig Butchering Scams: Fraud Factories, Fake Love, and Captive Scammers
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sha zhu pan translates roughly to fattening a pig before the slaughter, and the phrase describes...
7 Okt 23min
Titanic Thompson: The Hustler Who Rigged Reality and Sank Everybody
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Alvin Clarence Thomas ran away from an Ozarks farm at 16, unable to read or write and carrying l...
7 Okt 23min
The Ford Pinto: Exploding Gas Tanks, the Pinto Memo and the Real Data
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Ford Pinto is remembered as the car that burst into flames because its maker put a price on ...
7 Okt 23min
The History of the ATM: Radioactive Checks, PINs and Jackpotting Heists
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1961 an inventor named Luther Simjian put an automated banking machine on a New York City str...
7 Okt 21min
Tickle Me Elmo: The 1996 Toy Craze That Turned Christmas Shopping Violent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On December 14th, 1996, a Walmart clerk in Fredericton, New Brunswick pulled a red plush toy fro...
7 Okt 22min
Joseph Jagger: The Bankrupt Mill Worker Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The phrase breaking the bank at Monte Carlo suggests tuxedos and effortless luck. The man who ac...
7 Okt 23min
Aristotle Onassis: The Refugee Tycoon Who Took On Nixon and Monaco
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Aristotle Onassis was born in 1906 in Smyrna to a wealthy shipping family and spoke four languag...
7 Okt 23min
