The Wall Street Crash of 1929: Margin Debt, Black Tuesday, and the Fallout
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In August 1929, brokers had lent investors more than $8.5 billion to buy stocks, a sum greater t...
7 Okt 21min
Croesus of Lydia: The Richest King and the Prophecy That Ruined Him
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rich as Croesus is a phrase that has outlived its subject by more than two thousand years, yet t...
7 Okt 22min
Kickstarter: $41 Million Miracles, Vaporware, and a 42-Day Strike
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Kickstarter turned ordinary fans into venture capitalists who want a fantasy novel or a board ga...
7 Okt 23min
The Panama Papers: How 11.5 Million Leaked Files Exposed Offshore Wealth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!It began with a message from a source known only as John Doe: my life is in danger. Attached wer...
7 Okt 19min
John Jacob Astor: Furs, Opium, and the Land Beneath Manhattan
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1830s roughly one of every hundred dollars in the United States belonged to John Jacob As...
7 Okt 21min
John Bogle and Vanguard: The Index Fund Wall Street Called Un-American
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John C. Bogle built a firm that handles trillions of dollars and died in 2019 with about $80 mil...
7 Okt 20min
Jim Simons: The Codebreaker Who Turned Wall Street Into a Math Problem
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Jim Simons refused to wear socks, chain-smoked through meetings, and answered questions about pu...
7 Okt 19min
Jesse Livermore: The Boy Plunger Who Made $100 Million in the 1929 Crash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!While fortunes evaporated in October 1929, Jesse Livermore walked away with roughly $100 million...
7 Okt 21min
