A HISTORY OF LEVERAGE
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A HISTORY OF LEVERAGE Book 1
4 parts · 13 h 35 min
New Bedford and New York, 1834 to 1916. Hetty Howland Robinson is born into a Quaker whaling fortune, loses a two-million-dollar will case on a rule of evidence, and spends the next half century lending money against paper that other people cannot hold.
A HISTORY OF LEVERAGE Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 8 min
New York, 1836 to 1892. Jay Gould leaves a Catskill tannery for Wall Street and spends thirty years buying claims on things other men built.
A HISTORY OF LEVERAGE Book 3
4 parts · 16 h 51 min
Chicago and Stockholm, 1880 to 1938. Samuel Insull builds the American electric utility and then builds a tower of holding companies on top of it. Ivar Kreuger buys the world's match factories and lends dollars to governments in return for the right to sell matches inside their borders.
A HISTORY OF LEVERAGE Book 4
4 parts · 18 h 4 min
New York, Flint and Boston, 1907 to 1940. William Crapo Durant assembles General Motors out of share exchanges, loses it twice, and spends the twenties as the most conspicuous individual operator on the New York Stock Exchange.
A HISTORY OF LEVERAGE Book 5
4 parts · 19 h 52 min
Denver, Cincinnati and Las Vegas, 1962 to 1999. A bond department in Beverly Hills turns paper nobody wanted into the money that buys American companies.
A HISTORY OF LEVERAGE Book 6
4 parts · 15 h 25 min
Augsburg, Frankfurt, London, New York, Havana and Kolwezi, 1459 to 2021. Jacob Fugger lends against a silver mine and pays for an imperial election. Mayer Amschel Rothschild deals coins in a locked street and puts five sons in five cities.