Yahoo: The Giant That Passed on Google for $1 Million and Fell
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Yahoo could have bought Google for $1 million in 1998. It declined. Ten years later it turned do...
7 Okt 21min
The Wirecard Scandal: The 1.9 Billion Euros That Never Existed
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Wirecard sat on Germany's DAX index with a valuation of 24 billion euros, a celebrated homegrown...
7 Okt 24min
Wildcat Banking: Swamp Banks, Nail-Filled Vaults, and Worthless Notes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!From roughly 1836 to 1865, the United States ran without a unified national currency. State-char...
7 Okt 27min
Weimar Hyperinflation: When Bread Cost 200 Billion Marks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In late 1922 a loaf of bread in Berlin cost about 160 marks. Less than a year later the same loa...
7 Okt 22min
Warren Buffett: From Pinball Hustler to the Oracle of Omaha
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At 14, Warren Buffett filed his first income tax return and claimed a $35 deduction for wear on ...
7 Okt 24min
Toys R Us: How Amazon and a Debt-Fueled Buyout Killed a Toy Giant
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the summer of 2024, Toys R Us released a promo made with OpenAI's Sora that showed founder Ch...
7 Okt 20min
The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: Two Prospectors Who Fooled Tiffany
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Slack died in 1896 as a coffin maker in White Oaks, New Mexico, keeping quiet about one of ...
7 Okt 22min
The Tontine: The Last Survivor Bet That Built Early Wall Street
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The last survivor pact from old mystery novels and sitcoms is a real financial instrument with a...
7 Okt 30min
