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Tino De Angelis: The Salad Oil Swindle That Fooled Wall Street
Oct 7, 202623 min
S&H Green Stamps: The Sticky Paper Empire That Invented Loyalty
Oct 7, 202622 min
Ruja Ignatova: The OneCoin Cryptoqueen Who Took $4 Billion and Vanished
Oct 7, 202621 min
Rudy Kurniawan: The Kitchen Sink Forger Who Fooled Fine Wine's Elite
Oct 7, 202619 min
Ron Popeil: The Chop-O-Matic Pitchman Who Invented the Infomercial
Oct 7, 202618 min
Richard Warren Sears: The Rejected Watches That Built a Mail Order Empire
Oct 7, 202619 min
Railway Mania: The 1840s Bubble That Ruined Savers and Built Britain
Oct 7, 202620 min
RadioShack: How a Tinkerer's Paradise Ended in a Crypto Meltdown
Oct 7, 202621 min
Pump and Dump: From 1990s Boiler Rooms to Crypto Discord Servers
Oct 7, 202620 min
Gary Dahl and the Pet Rock: How a Bar Joke Made a Millionaire
Oct 7, 202615 min
Barter: From Silent Trade to Pepsi's Soviet Navy and the Blockchain
Oct 7, 202623 min
Compound Interest: The Forbidden Math That Now Runs Global Finance
Oct 7, 202620 min
Opportunity Cost: The Hidden Price Tag on Every Choice You Make
Oct 7, 202621 min
Gerald Ratner: The Prawn Sandwich Joke That Wiped Out £500 Million
Oct 7, 202619 min
Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road: The Dark Web Empire Run From a Library
Oct 7, 202621 min
The Nixon Shock: The 1971 Weekend That Cut the Dollar From Gold
Oct 7, 202623 min
The Knights Templar: Warrior Monks Who Invented Medieval Banking
Oct 7, 202625 min
New Coke: The 79-Day Blunder That Accidentally Saved Coca-Cola
Oct 7, 202620 min
Netscape: The Browser That Built the Web and Lost to Microsoft
Oct 7, 202622 min
Napster: The App That Broke the Music Industry and Refused to Die
Oct 7, 202622 min
NFTs: From a $4 Video Clip to a $17 Billion Bubble and Back to Zero
Oct 7, 202622 min
MySpace: How a $12 Billion Social Network Destroyed Itself
Oct 7, 202622 min
Muriel Siebert: The First Woman to Own a Seat on the NYSE
Oct 7, 202622 min
Moral Hazard: From Insurance Fraud to the 2008 Financial Meltdown
Oct 7, 202620 min
Michael Larson: The Ice Cream Man Who Broke Press Your Luck in 1984
Oct 7, 202623 min
The McDonald's Happy Meal: How a Cardboard Box Outsold the Food Inside
Oct 7, 202623 min
Edward Thorp: The Math Professor Who Beat Blackjack and Wall Street
Oct 7, 202621 min
Marcus Licinius Crassus: Rome's Richest Man and His Fatal Envy
Oct 7, 202625 min
The Credit Card: From the 1958 Fresno Drop to a Hidden Tax on Cash
Oct 7, 202620 min
The Wall Street Crash of 1929: Margin Debt, Black Tuesday, and the Fallout
Oct 7, 202621 min
Croesus of Lydia: The Richest King and the Prophecy That Ruined Him
Oct 7, 202622 min
Kickstarter: $41 Million Miracles, Vaporware, and a 42-Day Strike
Oct 7, 202623 min
The Panama Papers: How 11.5 Million Leaked Files Exposed Offshore Wealth
Oct 7, 202619 min
John Jacob Astor: Furs, Opium, and the Land Beneath Manhattan
Oct 7, 202621 min
John Bogle and Vanguard: The Index Fund Wall Street Called Un-American
Oct 7, 202620 min
Jim Simons: The Codebreaker Who Turned Wall Street Into a Math Problem
Oct 7, 202619 min
Jesse Livermore: The Boy Plunger Who Made $100 Million in the 1929 Crash
Oct 7, 202621 min
Jay Gould: From 50 Cents to Black Friday and America's Most Hated Man
Oct 7, 202621 min
Japan's Asset Bubble: When the Imperial Palace Outpriced California
Oct 7, 202613 min
Jim Fisk: Circus Runaway, Black Friday Gold Raider, Murdered at 36
Oct 7, 202622 min
Jakob Fugger the Rich: The Banker Who Bought an Emperor's Crown
Oct 7, 202623 min
The Panic of 1907: How J.P. Morgan Locked Bankers In to Save the Economy
Oct 7, 202621 min
Ivan Boesky: The Insider Trading Scandal That Inspired Gordon Gekko
Oct 7, 202621 min
Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Whose Facts Broke Up Standard Oil
Oct 7, 202621 min
John Sutter: The Fugitive Whose California Empire Was Ruined by Gold
Oct 7, 202625 min
Rai Stones of Yap: Giant Stone Money and the Meaning of Value
Oct 7, 202622 min
George Eastman and Kodak: You Press the Button, We Do the Rest
Oct 7, 202620 min
The GameStop Short Squeeze: How Reddit Traders Broke Wall Street's Plumbing
Oct 7, 202621 min
Frank McNamara and Diners Club: The Forgotten Wallet That Built Credit
Oct 7, 202620 min
The Fidget Spinner: A Fake Inventor Story and a Debunked Focus Cure
Oct 7, 202620 min