William Chaloner: The Counterfeiter Isaac Newton Sent to the Gallows
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Isaac Newton's most dangerous opponent was not a rival mathematician. He was William Chaloner, b...
7 Okt 25min
The Savings and Loan Crisis: How Sleepy Thrifts Cost Taxpayers $124 Billion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Savings and loan associations were built to be boring. Neighbors pooled their deposits, and the ...
7 Okt 25min
The Breakers: The Vanderbilt Women Who Saved a 70-Room Newport Mansion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After fire burned his wooden Newport house to the ground in 1892, Cornelius Vanderbilt II told a...
7 Okt 21min
The Stock Ticker: How a One-Letter-a-Second Printer Invented Real Time
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the mid 1800s, a stock price traveled only as fast as a runner could carry a slip of paper do...
7 Okt 19min
The Spanish Prisoner: The 400-Year-Old Con Behind Every Scam Email
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Long before spam folders, a letter would arrive sealed in wax from a foreign country. A wealthy ...
7 Okt 17min
The Phoebus Cartel: The Light Bulb Plot That Invented Planned Obsolescence
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On January 15, 1925, executives from the world's largest light bulb makers met in Geneva and sto...
7 Okt 19min
The PayPal Mafia: How One Startup's Alumni Built the Modern Web
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2007, Fortune magazine photographed a group of former PayPal employees in pinstripe suits aro...
7 Okt 19min
The New York Stock Exchange: From a Buttonwood Tree to $44 Trillion
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Until late 2000, the New York Stock Exchange priced shares in eighths of a dollar, a habit inher...
7 Okt 21min
