THE LAST OF THE MONEY
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THE LAST OF THE MONEY Book 1
4 parts · 15 h 50 min
Two software companies, seven years apart, arrived at the same arithmetic. In 1990 Oracle told the market its revenue had grown fifty-four percent and its earnings one percent, restated quarters it had already reported, posted the first loss in its history, and watched its bankers cut its credit line by more than half.
THE LAST OF THE MONEY Book 2
4 parts · 14 h 13 min
Portland and Memphis, 1962 to 1980. Two American companies grew fast enough to kill themselves. Blue Ribbon Sports doubled its sales almost every year for a decade and was thrown out of two banks for it.
THE LAST OF THE MONEY Book 3
4 parts · 13 h 33 min
Between 2001 and 2009 one man financed two companies that ran out of money in the same quarter. Space Exploration Technologies put three rockets into the Pacific before a fourth reached orbit on 28 September 2008, with the parts for one more vehicle in the building.
THE LAST OF THE MONEY Book 4
4 parts · 17 h 22 min
Three companies meet the date the money runs out, decades apart and on two continents. General Motors, in the fall of 1920, carries inventory it cannot sell and a founder who has pledged his stock to brokers.
THE LAST OF THE MONEY Book 5
4 parts · 14 h 7 min
Eight American companies, none of them large when it happened, each arrived at a Wednesday on which the money for Friday was not in the account. A brewer in Chico raised fifty thousand dollars from friends and ran out of it repeatedly. A cable maker in Hawthorne borrowed twenty-five thousand from his parents.
THE LAST OF THE MONEY Book 6
4 parts · 17 h 52 min
Five businesses came to the day their money ran out and did not die: a Kansas City cartoon studio in 1923, a Modena engine works that could not afford its own racing team, a San Francisco film company that lost a studio lot at auction, a California clothing firm that fired a fifth of its people on a Wednesday in July…