NIXON AND IMPOUNDMENT, NOT SPENDING FUNDS, CONGRESS AND COURTS
In the 1970's a President, seeking to reduce inflation, tried a new tactic. Simply not spending the money that congress appropriated. OK, it wasn't entirely new, but it had been used in defense spendi...
29 Jan 202524min
THE ARK OF COMMERCE: MEASURE EVERYTHING
Business must be measured. An unknown man in a forgotten office develops a number that makes and breaks Presidents. A poet turns his song away from beautiful pastures and towards a metal object. Two 1...
20 Jan 20251h 26min
THE ARK OF COMMERCE - DOLLARS IN THE AIR
Air commerce is covered in this episode. Not only those airship vehicles that imitate naval travel in the skies, which seemed to be the future of travel. But also, putting waves into the air and chang...
10 Jan 20251h 11min
THE ARK OF COMMERCE: SHOPPING WITH MRS. LINCOLN
The history of American retail, from Mrs. Lincoln's shopping trips and the innovator who accommodated her, to the price salvationists and tea servers, and finally the Socialist concept that gets the s...
6 Jan 20251h 11min
ARK OF COMMERCE: LOCO -A HISTORY OF LAND COMMERCE
A mysterious crash. A strange contraption. A fateful race, an outbreak of violent activity and a crafty watch-seller. A look at the railroad history of America and the changes the railroad brought. Le...
3 Jan 20251h 45min
THE ARK OF COMMERCE: TERRIBLE TUESDAY 1987 ("It Was Almost as Bad as Black Monday") THE ARK OF COMMERCE
For Wall Street Insiders, Black Monday was not the worst day. The next day, Terrible Tuesday was an agonizing test of the financial system. As part of our series on the commercial history of the Unite...
27 Dec 202455min
THE ARK OF COMMERCE - IF BY SEA
Water commerce. A unique boat is built to overcome a powerful challenge in interstate water commerce. a revolution is fed by fish. A writer turns commerce into words. A well known Revolutionary figur...
23 Dec 20241h 39min
ARK OF COMMERCE: BLACK MONDAY
What's the stock market crash of 1987 got to do with the price of eggs/ Plenty, in a historical context. We look at the infamous crash of 1987 and how the computers did not save us. Nor did insurance ...
19 Dec 202459min
