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The Gambler's Fallacy: 26 Blacks in a Row at Monte Carlo in 1913
Oct 7, 202621 min
Conspicuous Consumption: Why We Go Broke Trying to Look Rich
Oct 7, 202625 min
Wampum Was Never Money: The Sacred Beads Colonists Turned Into Cash
Oct 7, 202620 min
Loss Leaders: Why Costco Loses Money on Every $1.50 Hot Dog
Oct 7, 202622 min
Planned Obsolescence: Why Your Phone and Printer Are Built to Fail
Oct 7, 202626 min
The Piggy Bank: A 2,000-Year History of Smashing Our Savings
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Cola Wars: How Coke and Pepsi's Feud Rewired Consumer Psychology
Oct 7, 202618 min
Casino de Monte-Carlo: The Desperate Gamble That Saved Monaco
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Potlatch: Where Giving Away Your Wealth Was the Path to Power
Oct 7, 202621 min
Veblen Goods: Why Raising the Price Makes Luxury More Desirable
Oct 7, 202620 min
Groupon: The Daily Deal Giant That Turned Down $6 Billion From Google
Oct 7, 202612 min
The Broken Window Fallacy: Why Destruction Never Creates Wealth
Oct 7, 202625 min
Cornering the Market: Chocfinger, the Hunt Brothers, and Silver Thursday
Oct 7, 202623 min
Betamax vs VHS: How Sony Lost the Videotape War It Started
Oct 7, 202621 min
Bank Runs Explained: From Goldsmiths to the $42 Billion Cyber Run
Oct 7, 202626 min
Gresham's Law: Why Bad Money Drives Out Good, From Athens to Now
Oct 7, 202620 min
The $100,000 Bill: The Rise and Purge of America's Giant Banknotes
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Onion Futures Act: How Two Traders Cornered Onions and Got Banned
Oct 7, 202616 min
Multi-Level Marketing: Why 99 Percent of MLM Recruits Lose Money
Oct 7, 202621 min
The California Gold Rush: Who Really Got Rich and Who Paid the Price
Oct 7, 202625 min
Cabbage Patch Kids: The Folk Artist Whose Idea Xavier Roberts Took
Oct 7, 202619 min
The Superdollar: The Near-Perfect Fake $100 Bill Nobody Can Trace
Oct 7, 202624 min
The Beard Tax: Peter the Great's War on Russian Facial Hair
Oct 7, 202621 min
Sumptuary Laws: When Purple Dye, Silk, and Gold Rings Were Crimes
Oct 7, 202625 min
The Window Tax: How Britain Taxed Light and Air for 150 Years
Oct 7, 202620 min
The Great Depression: How Gold, Tariffs, and Bank Runs Broke the World
Oct 7, 202622 min
Pig Butchering Scams: Fraud Factories, Fake Love, and Captive Scammers
Oct 7, 202623 min
Titanic Thompson: The Hustler Who Rigged Reality and Sank Everybody
Oct 7, 202623 min
The Ford Pinto: Exploding Gas Tanks, the Pinto Memo and the Real Data
Oct 7, 202623 min
The History of the ATM: Radioactive Checks, PINs and Jackpotting Heists
Oct 7, 202621 min
Tickle Me Elmo: The 1996 Toy Craze That Turned Christmas Shopping Violent
Oct 7, 202622 min
Joseph Jagger: The Bankrupt Mill Worker Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Oct 7, 202623 min
Aristotle Onassis: The Refugee Tycoon Who Took On Nixon and Monaco
Oct 7, 202623 min
Jordan Belfort: From Italian Ice to the $200 Million Stratton Oakmont Scam
Oct 7, 202619 min
Pan Am: Rise and Fall of the Airline That Built the Jet Age
Oct 7, 202623 min
Gerald Cotten and QuadrigaCX: The Dead CEO and the Missing $250 Million
Oct 7, 202623 min
Pepsi Number Fever: How Bottle Cap 349 Sparked Riots in the Philippines
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Panic of 1873: Railroad Mania and the First Global Financial Crash
Oct 7, 202621 min
Hans Wilsdorf: The Rolex Founder MI5 Suspected of Nazi Sympathies
Oct 7, 202623 min
Edward Agar and the Great Gold Robbery of 1855: A Perfect Train Heist
Oct 7, 202625 min
Crazy Eddie: How Eddie Antar's Insane Prices Hid an $80 Million Fraud
Oct 7, 202621 min
Pyramid Schemes Explained: The Math Behind Gifting Circles and MLMs
Oct 7, 202622 min
Ruja Ignatova: The Oxford-Educated Cryptoqueen Who Vanished With Billions
Oct 7, 202618 min
The Gilded Age: Railroads, Robber Barons and the Rust Under the Gold
Oct 7, 202622 min
The Hoover Free Flights Fiasco: How a 1992 Promo Sank a Brand
Oct 7, 202621 min
Gregor MacGregor and Poyais: The War Hero Who Invented a Country
Oct 7, 202623 min
Joan Anderson: The Woman Who Named the Hula Hoop and Got $6,000
Oct 7, 202619 min
Charles Deville Wells: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
Oct 7, 202621 min
Therese Humbert and the Crawford Millions: The Empty Safe of Paris
Oct 7, 202620 min
Bernard Ebbers and WorldCom: The $11 Billion Accounting Fraud
Oct 7, 202621 min