Navinder Singh Sarao: The Bedroom Trader Blamed for the Flash Crash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On May 6, 2010, the Dow fell nearly a thousand points and a trillion dollars in market value dis...
7 Okt 21min
Inside the Boiler Room: Pump and Dumps, Sucker Lists and Ruined Lives
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A boiler room is an outbound call center built to push questionable investments through dishones...
7 Okt 25min
John D. Rockefeller: How the Standard Oil Breakup Made Him Richer
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1911 the Supreme Court ordered Standard Oil broken into 39 companies, a punishment meant to e...
7 Okt 17min
Robber Barons: How a Medieval Insult Came to Define the Gilded Age
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1975 Stanford students voted to name their sports teams the Robber Barons. The administration...
7 Okt 22min
Levi Strauss: The Peddler Who Never Invented Blue Jeans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The name on your jeans belongs to a man who did not invent them. Levi Strauss was born Loeb Stra...
7 Okt 17min
Black Friday 1869: How Jay Gould and Jim Fisk Cornered the Gold Market
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1869 the public supply of gold in New York was only about $15 to $20 million, while the count...
7 Okt 25min
Jack Tramiel: The Commodore Founder Who Bought Atari for Revenge
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jack Tramiel started in a Bronx typewriter repair shop in the early 1950s and ended up selling t...
7 Okt 22min
The Gold Standard: Isaac Newton's Math Error That Ruled World Money
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The gold standard is remembered as the model of financial discipline, yet no one designed it. In...
7 Okt 25min
