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Charles Van Doren and the Rigged Quiz Show That Fooled America
Oct 7, 202612 min
The Hungarian Pengo: The Worst Hyperinflation Ever Recorded
Oct 7, 202623 min
The 419 Scam: Why Nigerian Prince Emails Are Bad on Purpose
Oct 7, 202622 min
Charles Ingram, the Coughing Major: Millionaire Cheat or Scapegoat?
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Klondike Gold Rush: A Ton of Gear, Dead Horses and Few Fortunes
Oct 7, 202624 min
J. Paul Getty: The Oil Billionaire Who Haggled Over a Ransom
Oct 7, 202618 min
Navinder Sarao and the 2010 Flash Crash: Stub Quotes and Spoofing
Oct 7, 202619 min
Navinder Singh Sarao: The Bedroom Trader Blamed for the Flash Crash
Oct 7, 202621 min
Inside the Boiler Room: Pump and Dumps, Sucker Lists and Ruined Lives
Oct 7, 202625 min
John D. Rockefeller: How the Standard Oil Breakup Made Him Richer
Oct 7, 202617 min
Robber Barons: How a Medieval Insult Came to Define the Gilded Age
Oct 7, 202622 min
Levi Strauss: The Peddler Who Never Invented Blue Jeans
Oct 7, 202617 min
Black Friday 1869: How Jay Gould and Jim Fisk Cornered the Gold Market
Oct 7, 202625 min
Jack Tramiel: The Commodore Founder Who Bought Atari for Revenge
Oct 7, 202622 min
The Gold Standard: Isaac Newton's Math Error That Ruled World Money
Oct 7, 202625 min
William Chaloner: The Counterfeiter Isaac Newton Sent to the Gallows
Oct 7, 202625 min
The Savings and Loan Crisis: How Sleepy Thrifts Cost Taxpayers $124 Billion
Oct 7, 202625 min
The Breakers: The Vanderbilt Women Who Saved a 70-Room Newport Mansion
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Stock Ticker: How a One-Letter-a-Second Printer Invented Real Time
Oct 7, 202619 min
The Spanish Prisoner: The 400-Year-Old Con Behind Every Scam Email
Oct 7, 202617 min
The Phoebus Cartel: The Light Bulb Plot That Invented Planned Obsolescence
Oct 7, 202619 min
The PayPal Mafia: How One Startup's Alumni Built the Modern Web
Oct 7, 202619 min
The New York Stock Exchange: From a Buttonwood Tree to $44 Trillion
Oct 7, 202621 min
Ivar Kreuger, the Match King: The Swindle That Rewrote Wall Street's Rules
Oct 7, 202623 min
The Real MIT Blackjack Team: How Math Students Beat the Casinos
Oct 7, 202622 min
Jack Whittaker: The Millionaire Ruined by a $314.9 Million Powerball Win
Oct 7, 202620 min
The Kelly Criterion: Why Bettors Go Broke Even With a 60% Edge
Oct 7, 202622 min
The Federal Reserve Explained: How the Money Printer Lost $114 Billion
Oct 7, 202621 min
Chris Moneymaker: The Accountant Whose $86 Bet Changed Poker
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Dunbar Armored Robbery: Allen Pace III and an $18.9 Million Heist
Oct 7, 202619 min
Zimbabwe Hyperinflation: The 100 Trillion Dollar Note and Bus Fare
Oct 7, 202619 min
Yahoo: The Giant That Passed on Google for $1 Million and Fell
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Wirecard Scandal: The 1.9 Billion Euros That Never Existed
Oct 7, 202624 min
Wildcat Banking: Swamp Banks, Nail-Filled Vaults, and Worthless Notes
Oct 7, 202627 min
Weimar Hyperinflation: When Bread Cost 200 Billion Marks
Oct 7, 202622 min
Warren Buffett: From Pinball Hustler to the Oracle of Omaha
Oct 7, 202624 min
Toys R Us: How Amazon and a Debt-Fueled Buyout Killed a Toy Giant
Oct 7, 202620 min
The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872: Two Prospectors Who Fooled Tiffany
Oct 7, 202622 min
The Tontine: The Last Survivor Bet That Built Early Wall Street
Oct 7, 202630 min
The Cullinan Diamond: Mailed in a Cardboard Box to the King
Oct 7, 202623 min
Al Capone: Undone by a Tax Bill and an Untreated Disease
Oct 7, 202623 min
Tally Sticks: The Wooden Money That Burned Down Parliament
Oct 7, 202622 min
The Infomercial: From a 1949 Blender Pitch to Presidential Campaigns
Oct 7, 202624 min
Supreme: How a Lafayette Street Skate Shop Became a Billion Dollar Brand
Oct 7, 202622 min
The 2008 Financial Crisis: How Subprime Mortgages Froze the World
Oct 7, 202621 min
Spindletop: The Texas Gusher That Launched the Oil Age and Gulf Oil
Oct 7, 202623 min
The Dollar Sign: A Spanish Peso Scribble That Conquered the Keyboard
Oct 7, 202623 min
Sneakerheads: How Basketball Shoes Became a $10 Billion Asset Class
Oct 7, 202621 min
Slot Machines: From Chewing Gum Loopholes to Engineered Addiction
Oct 7, 202626 min
Sears Modern Homes: The 30,000 Piece Houses Sold by Mail Order
Oct 7, 202624 min