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The Dumbest Business Ever... Shipping Melting Ice to Calcutta.
May 20, 2026Frederic Tudor could get ice any time he wanted. He lived in chilly Boston and his family had a lake that froze over in the winter. Harvesting ice and storing it was a normal thing in New England in t...
From History Daily: John S. Pemberton Sells the First Glass of Coca-Cola
May 15, 2026Here's a preview of a show we think you'll like, History Daily. Every weekday, Lindsay Graham explores a momentous event that happened 'on this day' in history. Today: American pharmacist John S. Pemb...
The Match Maker Who Nearly Burned Down Wall Street
May 13, 2026Swedish entrepreneur Ivar Kreuger built a fortune selling matches. He used this money to build a world famous financial empire that bankrolled whole countries. France borrowed from Kreuger. Germany bo...
Did "Neutron" Jack Welch Nuke GE?
May 06, 2026In 1999, Jack Welch was named "Manager of the Century". As CEO of General Electric for 20 years, Welch transformed the conglomerate and made it the biggest company in the world. Nicknamed "Neutron Jac...
The Widow Who Ruled the Champagne World
Apr 29, 2026Running a wine business in Napoleonic France wasn't easy. Constant wars meant naval blockades stopped you exporting your wares and invading armies might loot your cellars. But it was even harder for w...
The Business of Staying Young and Living Forever (with Kara Swisher)
Apr 22, 2026Kings and emperors spent fortunes pursuing the secret of eternal youth - but now it's tech billionaires who want to live forever and are funding research into scientific (and not-so-scientific) ways t...
Sinking the Global Economy: The Lloyds of London Story Part II
Apr 15, 2026In the 1980s, Lloyds of London insured satellites, rock singers' voices and the legs of sports stars. Everyone was having fun and making money - but disaster was just around the corner. Lloyds had a...
The Insurers Who ALWAYS Paid Out: The Lloyds of London Story Part I
Apr 08, 2026Edward Lloyd opened a coffee shop near the River Thames in the 1680s - it became a place where ship owners and money men rubbed shoulders and a trade in marine insurance sprang up. The coffee-drinki...
Betting on Taylor Swift or Who'll Be Made Pope: The Past and Present of Prediction Markets
Mar 25, 2026A live mash-up between Business History and Bloomberg's Everybody's Business. On platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket you can bet on just about anything - from Taylor Swift's album sales to whether P...
Bowie, McCartney & Michael Jackson: How Songwriters Learned to Play Hardball
Mar 18, 2026Once if you wrote a hit song there was no guarantee it would make you rich. So songwriters formed a cartel - the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP started suing concert hall...