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Financial history told as cinematic bedtime stories. Deep-dive documentary episodes covering the great market crashes, speculative bubbles, and legendary investors that shaped the modern world.From Tulip Mania to the 1929 Crash. From Jesse Livermore to Jeremy Grantham. Every episode is a feature-length documentary for your ears — perfect for winding down, long commutes, or anyone who finds the story behind the money more fascinating than the money itself.New episodes weekly.
Unknown Host hosts Sleepy Stock Market, a business show with 47 episodes published.
In May 1980, Julian Robertson started a hedge fund with $8.8 million borrowed from friends and family. Eighteen years later, it was worth $22 billion — a gain of over 259,000 percent, outpacing the S&P 500 by nineteen pe
In June 2019, a financial wellness educator from Brockton, Massachusetts put $53,000 into a stock every Wall Street professional had written off as dead. He posted his analysis on a forum built around catastrophic losses
There is a fund almost no one on Earth has ever been allowed to invest in, and for more than thirty years it returned roughly 66% a year before fees, more than tripling Warren Buffett. The man who built it, Jim Simons, w
In November 2023, a jury in Lower Manhattan deliberated for less than four hours before finding Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts. At his peak he had been worth twenty-six billion dollars — sleeping on a beanb
In January 1980, silver hit $50 an ounce. A year earlier it had cost $6. Behind that staggering rise were two Texan brothers — Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt — who had spent seven years quietly accumulating
In December 1871, a train arrived in York carrying a coffin. Thousands lined the streets to watch it pass. The man inside had once controlled a third of all the railways in Britain — received by dukes, dined with prime m
For almost a decade, Marty Schwartz — Columbia MBA, Marine Corps captain, and a top securities analyst — could pick winning stocks for everyone but himself, losing money in his own account year after year. Then he change
In August 1998 the most brilliant hedge fund in history - Long-Term Capital Management, run by two Nobel laureates and the most feared bond trader on Wall Street... lost $553 million in a single day, a loss its own model
In 1994, two future Nobel laureates, a former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, and the most feared bond trader on Wall Street raised a record $1.25 billion to build the perfect money machine: Long-Term Capital Manag
Paul Tudor Jones spent roughly 25 straight years without a single losing year, averaging nearly 20% annually and returning about 87% in 1990 alone by shorting Japan's collapsing Nikkei. Then 2008 broke the streak — not b
In October 1987, thirty-three-year-old Paul Tudor Jones made an estimated $100 million in a single day as the Dow collapsed 22.6% — the worst one-day percentage drop in its history. Jones and his research director Peter
An airline printed a magazine asking 'Who's Afraid of Carl Icahn?' — every CEO on Wall Street knew the answer. Starting with a $400,000 loan from his uncle in 1968, Icahn built a takeover machine that forced companies to
Benjamin Graham lost nearly 70% of his investors' money in the 1929 crash — then rebuilt to return 20% annually for two decades. Graham co-founded Graham-Newman Corporation in 1926, published Security Analysis in 1934, a
Harry Markopolos figured out Madoff's fraud in four hours — then spent nine years being ignored by the SEC. In November 2005 he submitted a 21-page memo naming 29 red flags, and the SEC still closed the case without veri
In 1960, Bernie Madoff started a brokerage with $5,000 from lifeguarding — by 1999 his fake books showed $7.1 billion under management. He served as NASDAQ Chairman three times while Frank DiPascali fabricated thousands
On October 29, 1929, Jesse Livermore held over one million shares short and made nearly $100 million in a single week — roughly $3 billion today. He had predicted the crash months earlier, secretly placing positions thro
At fourteen, Jesse Livermore talked his way into a Boston brokerage for six dollars a week — and secretly started beating the house. By sixteen, he had made his first thousand dollars trading in illegal off-exchange gamb
Part 2 of the John Law story. By December 1719 John Law was the second most powerful man in France: Contrôleur Général des Finances, head of the Banque Royale, and master of the Compagnie des Indes. Mississippi Company s
Part 1 of the John Law story. In 1694 a twenty-two-year-old Scottish goldsmith's son killed a London dandy in a duel, was sentenced to death, then vanished from Newgate Prison five days later. He resurfaced in Amsterdam
In 1920, Charles Ponzi promised 50% returns in 45 days — and 40,000 people handed him their savings. By July 1920 he was collecting $1 million per day, but auditors found just $61 worth of postal coupons when his scheme
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