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De-Nazifying the Love Bug: The VW Beetle Story Part II
Jan 21, 2026It's 1945. The Volkswagen factory has been bombed and members of the staff have been arrested as war criminals. So how did the company turn around in just a few years and begin making Beetle cars that...
Hitler's Gift to the Hippies: The VW Beetle Story Part I
Jan 14, 2026The VW Beetle was the biggest selling car of all time - and it found particular favor with people like hippies and surfers. But this icon of the 60s counterculture had its roots in Nazism. The Volkswa...
How Jim Simons Built a Machine That Beat the Market
Jan 07, 2026Jim Simons loved cigarettes and math. He started out as an academic mathematician and a Cold War code breaker - but decided to use his skills to write computer programs to spot investment opportunitie...
Old Warren Buffett: "Never Invest in a Business You Cannot Understand"
Dec 24, 2025Young Warren Buffett became rich in anonymity - but in the 1980s he became a global star. During the excesses of 1980s Wall Street the middle-aged investor was reluctantly drawn into the spotlight to ...
Young Warren Buffett: How to Find Value No One Else Can See
Dec 17, 2025Warren Buffett rose from obscurity to become the richest person in the world - and he did it in a unique way. As a boy in Omaha he collected information obsessively - writing down car license numbers ...
How to Make Billions When the Bubble Bursts: Lessons from 1929
Dec 10, 2025The stock market was once a Wild West free-for-all. There were few rules or regulations. Investors were more or less gambling, or manipulating stocks to make a profit. This is the world Jesse Livermor...
The Man who Sued Major League Baseball (Rather than go to Philly)
Dec 03, 2025Curt Flood was the best center fielder in baseball and one of the game's highest payed players. He helped the St Louis Cardinals reach the 1968 World Series... but then got traded. The rules said he h...
Edison and the Movie Murder Mystery (The Edison Story Part 3)
Nov 26, 2025The man who invented the movie camera got on a train in France in 1890 and was never seen again. The wife of Louis Le Prince thought she knew who’d ordered her husband’s disappearance and presumed mur...
Edison, Tesla and the Electric Chair (The Edison Story Part 2)
Nov 19, 2025Thomas Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb, but he created something more important: the grid. Edison's system of power plants and wires brought lightbulbs to homes and offices and revolutionized moder...
The Edison Invention People Don't Talk About (The Edison Story Part 1)
Nov 12, 2025Thomas Alva Edison helped transform America and the world. He registered over one thousand patents before he died in 1931 - and we can thank him for advances in electric power, communications technolo...