Jordan Belfort: From Italian Ice to the $200 Million Stratton Oakmont Scam
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jordan Belfort made $20,000 one summer selling Italian ice from a styrofoam cooler on a public b...
7 Okt 19min
Pan Am: Rise and Fall of the Airline That Built the Jet Age
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pan American World Airways began not as a luxury brand but as a military worry. In 1927, Army Ai...
7 Okt 23min
Gerald Cotten and QuadrigaCX: The Dead CEO and the Missing $250 Million
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Gerald Cotten died suddenly in Jaipur, India on December 9th, 2018, his exchange QuadrigaCX...
7 Okt 23min
Pepsi Number Fever: How Bottle Cap 349 Sparked Riots in the Philippines
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 1992, Pepsi Philippines began printing three digit numbers inside the caps of Pepsi,...
7 Okt 21min
The Panic of 1873: Railroad Mania and the First Global Financial Crash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For more than 50 years, the phrase Great Depression did not mean 1929. It meant the collapse tha...
7 Okt 21min
Hans Wilsdorf: The Rolex Founder MI5 Suspected of Nazi Sympathies
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rolex did not begin in a Swiss workshop. It began in London in 1905, when German-born Hans Wilsd...
7 Okt 23min
Edward Agar and the Great Gold Robbery of 1855: A Perfect Train Heist
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1857 a British judge looked down at a convicted career criminal and admitted, on the record, ...
7 Okt 25min
Crazy Eddie: How Eddie Antar's Insane Prices Hid an $80 Million Fraud
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Crazy Eddie was a regional electronics chain so famous that Queen held a press conference there ...
7 Okt 21min
