Sleepy Stock Market

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 studying the Wisselbank, then in Paris with a radical idea: paper money. By 1716 the convicted murderer had opened the first central bank in French history. Within three years he controlled France's currency, its treasury, and its colonial empire — and coined the word *millionaire*.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#JohnLaw #FinancialHistory #StockMarket #MississippiBubble #CentralBanking #Money #History #Sleep #Documentary #SleepyStockMarket

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 required 160 million. When Ponzi was arrested on August 12, 1920, investors had lost $20 million — over $300 million in today's money — and most never recovered more than 30 cents on the dollar. The same mechanics resurfaced in Bernie Madoff's 2008 collapse, which cost investors $18 billion.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#CharlesPonzi #PonziScheme #FinancialFraud #TrueHistory #BernieMadoff #1920s #FinanceHistory #Scam #WhiteCollarCrime #HistoryShorts

Bruce Kovner borrowed $3,000 on a MasterCard in 1977 to bet on soybean futures — and it changed everything. A Harvard dropout and former NYC taxi driver, Kovner founded Caxton Associates in 1983 with just $12 million and turned it into one of the most profitable hedge funds in history, returning $12.8 billion to clients by 2010. At its peak, Caxton managed over $14 billion, posting a 55.6% average annual return in its first decade. The man who once drove cabs now chairs his own family office and donates rare music manuscripts to Juilliard.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#BruceKovner #HedgeFund #CaxtonAssociates #TradingStory #MacroTrading #WallStreet #InvestingHistory #BillionaireStory

In 2015, Michael Platt returned $8 billion to investors and shut Blue Crest Capital to the public — then reportedly made over 50% per year. Born in Preston in 1968, Platt built BlueCrest from zero into a $35 billion hedge fund giant after leaving JP Morgan with co-founder William Reeves in 2000. His fund returned 54% during the 2008 financial crisis while competitors collapsed. By 2025, his net worth reached $18.8 billion — built almost entirely after he stopped managing other people's money.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#MichaelPlatt #BlueCrest #HedgeFund #GlobalMacro #Finance #WallStreet #Trading #HedgeFundManager

Bill Ackman spent five years and $760 million trying to prove Herbalife was a pyramid scheme — and lost. In December 2012, Ackman held a one-billion-dollar short position and delivered an eight-hour public presentation accusing the company of fraud. Carl Icahn took the opposite side, buying 25 million shares in January 2014, and turned Ackman's crusade into a $1 billion profit for himself. The FTC fined Herbalife $200 million in 2017 but never declared it a pyramid scheme — meaning Ackman was arguably right about the damage, and still lost everything on the trade.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#BillAckman #Herbalife #CarlIcahn #HedgeFund #WallStreet #ShortSelling #FinanceHistory #Investing

Stanley Druckenmiller started college wanting to be an English professor — then one economics class in 1973 rerouted everything. By 28 he founded Duquesne Capital; by 1992 he engineered the trade that broke the Bank of England alongside George Soros, netting over $1 billion in a single day. Druckenmiller ran Duquesne for over 30 years with no losing years and annualized returns above 30 percent. He shut it down in 2010 — not from failure, but because managing other people's money had become too much to bear.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKET Fall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#Druckenmiller #HedgeFund #MacroTrading #GeorgeSoros #BlackWednesday #InvestingHistory #WallStreet #FinanceHistory #Duquesne #StanleyDruckenmiller

Ray Dalio predicted the 1987 Black Monday crash — and Bridgewater made $100 million in a single day. But Dalio's personal finances were so overextended that he had to call his father, Marino, and borrow $4 million just to survive. He fired every employee except one, rebuilt from near zero, and went on to manage $150 billion by 2013. The same man who called the biggest one-day market crash in history couldn't pay his own bills the morning after.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#RayDalio #Bridgewater #BlackMonday #HedgeFund #WallStreet #FinanceHistory #Investing #StockMarketCrash

Nick Leeson hid a £10,000 trading error in a secret account in 1992 — by February 1995, it had grown to £827 million and destroyed Barings Bank, Britain's oldest merchant bank, founded in 1762. Operating from Singapore, Leeson controlled both the trading floor and the back office, meaning no one reconciled his positions for two and a half years. The Kobe earthquake on January 17, 1995 dropped the Nikkei 1,000 points and triggered the final collapse — Leeson fled, left a note saying 'I'm sorry,' and was arrested at Frankfurt Airport. ING bought the entire bank for £1.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#NickLeeson #BaringsBank #RogueTrader #FinancialHistory #BankingScandal #Nikkei #TradingScandal #FinanceHistory #MarketCollapse #TrueCrimeFinance

On September 16, 1992, George Soros's Quantum Fund shorted £10 billion and forced the UK out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism — pocketing $1.1 billion in profit in a single day. Stanley Druckenmiller spotted the fatal crack in August: a Bundesbank report signalling Germany would not defend weaker ERM currencies. Chancellor Norman Lamont burned through £3.3 billion in taxpayer money raising rates to 15% trying to hold the line — and lost. Black Wednesday remains the most devastating single-day currency trade in financial history.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#GeorgeSoros #BlackWednesday #HedgeFund #QuantumFund #BritishPound #FinancialHistory #MacroInvesting #StanleyDruckenmiller

Peter Lynch turned $20 million into $14 billion with a 29.2% average annual return — yet the average Magellan investor earned only around 7%. From May 1977 to May 1990, Lynch beat the S&P 500 in 10 of 12 full years and delivered a 2,700% cumulative return, the best 20-year mutual fund record on record as of 2003.Investors chased his performance at every peak and panic-sold at every dip, systematically missing the recoveries that made his record legendary. Lynch retired at 46 — and the fund kept growing, but the returns never came back.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#PeterLynch #MagellanFund #InvestingHistory #StockMarket #FidelityFunds #ValueInvesting #InvestingMistakes #WallStreetHistory #MutualFunds #FinanceShorts

On September 16, 1992, George Soros and Stanley Druckenmiller shorted $10 billion worth of British pounds and made over $1 billion in a single day. The Bank of England spent £3.3 billion defending the pound, raised interest rates to 15%, and still lost by evening. The trade — known as Black Wednesday — forced Britain out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and cemented Soros as the man who broke the Bank of England. What most people don't know is that Druckenmiller built the position first, and the British economy actually boomed afterward.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKET Fall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#BlackWednesday #GeorgeSoros #Druckenmiller #BankOfEngland #ForexTrading #FinancialHistory #HedgeFund #QuantumFund

On 1997, Warren Buffett secretly purchased 129.7 million ounces of silver — roughly 25% of global annual production — shaking Comex markets worldwide. The Oracle of Omaha built a $700 billion empire starting with a $38.25 stock purchase at age 11 in 1942, using just three metrics: ROE above 20%, low debt, and consistent earnings. From rescuing American Express after a salad oil scandal in 1964 to his $25 billion Coca-Cola stake, every move followed the same patient playbook. He later admitted the silver trade in a single sentence to shareholders: 'I sold too soon.'🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#WarrenBuffett #BerkshireHathaway #ValueInvesting #Investing #StockMarket #OracleOfOmaha #Finance #WealthBuilding #InvestingTips #StockMarketHistory

In October 1907, J.P. Morgan personally raised $23 million in a single night and stopped the United States from complete financial collapse — with no government help. The panic started with a failed stock corner by speculators Augustus Heinze and Charles Morse, triggering bank runs that sent the NYSE down nearly 50% from its peak. Morgan locked New York's most powerful bankers inside his private library until they committed funds to stop the crisis. The irony: Congress was so disturbed that one private citizen held that much economic power, they created the Federal Reserve in 1913 specifically to replace him.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.#History #FinancialHistory #JPMorgan #PanicOf1907 #WallStreet #FederalReserve #EconomicHistory #BankingHistory #AmericanHistory #Shorts

Stanley Druckenmiller turned a $200 million short into a $600 million loss in just six weeks — and still never had a single losing year across 30 years at Duquesne Capital. From 1981 to 2010, Druckenmiller compounded at 30% annually while every one of his 100 investors walked away whole. The 1999-2000 internet bubble nearly ended it all, with tech stocks trading at 104x earnings and Druckenmiller caught on the wrong side of the trade. What happened next is the part of this story that almost no one tells.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKET Fall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.#Druckenmiller #HedgeFund #WallStreet #StockMarket #Investing #DotcomBubble #GeorgeSoros #DuquesneCapital #ValueInvesting #FinanceHistory

In 1857 the SS Central America sank in a hurricane off North Carolina, taking 30,000 pounds of California gold — $2 million — to the bottom of the ocean. The combined shock collapsed every New York bank by October 14th and sent the economy into a three-year depression. And on December 23, 1857, a broke farmer named Ulysses S. Grant pawned his gold watch just to survive Christmas.The Central America took four hundred and twenty-five souls with her when she finally slipped beneath the Atlantic's surface on the afternoon of September fourteenth. Among them were one hundred and one children. No major prosecutions, nobody went to jail.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.#Panic1857 #FinancialHistory #AmericanHistory #SSCentralAmerica #GoldRush #BankingCrisis #HistoryShorts #UlyssesGrant #19thCentury #EconomicHistory

Uranium hit an inflation-adjusted record of $200 a pound — then collapsed 95% and wiped out fortunes. The 1973 OPEC oil shock triggered a uranium frenzy, pushing US production to a peak of 45 million pounds in 1980, but commercial stockpiles swelled to 550 million pounds by 1983 — eight years of excess supply. Three Mile Island in 1979 killed demand, Fukushima in 2011 reset the cycle, and today uranium has doubled again from $50 to $100 a pound in just nine months. The pattern is uncomfortably familiar.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#Uranium #CommodityBubble #NuclearEnergy #UraniumPrice #ThreeMileIsland #Fukushima #EnergyMarkets #InvestingHistory #ResourceBubble #OPEC

THE BEANIE BABY BUBBLE: HOW A $5 TOY CREATED KILLERSTy Warner Made $700M. His Collectors Lost Everything.In 1998, one man's pre-tax income from a children's toy exceeded the combined revenue of Mattel and Hasbro — and people were killing for it. Ty Warner launched Beanie Babies in 1994 at just $5 each, then engineered artificial scarcity through 'retirements' that turned plush toys into a billion-dollar mania. By 1999, the bubble collapsed almost overnight, wiping out 99% of collector value while Warner walked away with a $6.5 billion fortune. The first internet collectibles craze ended exactly the way the NFT bubble would two decades later.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#BeanieBABies #TyWarner #CollectiblesBubble #1990s #FinancialCrash #NFTBubble #eBayHistory #PopCultureHistory #InvestingMistakes #EconomicBubble

By inauguration day 1933, unemployment had hit 25% and the money supply had collapsed 30% — Hoover's three years of 'natural recovery' had failed completely. FDR won the 1932 election 57% to 39%, launched six major federal agencies in 100 days, and the Depression finally ended in 1941. But here's the twist: Hoover spent decades blaming Federal Reserve policy for the crash, and in 2002 Fed Board member Ben Bernanke publicly confirmed the Fed had made the Depression significantly worse. Hoover diagnosed the crisis correctly — he just couldn't fix it.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#GreatDepression #FDR #Hoover #AmericanHistory #HistoryFacts #NewDeal #USHistory #PresidentialHistory #HistoryShorts #EconomicHistory

On August 14, 2001, Kenneth Lay told analysts he 'never felt better about the company' — the same day Jeffrey Skilling quietly resigned and sold $33 million in stock. Three and a half months later, Enron filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, collapsing from $100 billion in revenue to 26 cents a share. Skilling served 12 years of a 24-year sentence. Lay was convicted on all counts but died before sentencing — and under federal law, every conviction was automatically erased.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#Enron #KennethLay #JeffreySkilling #CorporateFraud #Bankruptcy #WhiteCollarCrime #FinancialScandal #StockMarket

Michael Burry personally earned $100 million during the 2008 financial collapse — while his own investors were sending him lawsuit threats. He shorted the subprime mortgage market starting in 2005, purchasing credit default swaps directly from Goldman Sachs, and refused to unwind the trade for nearly two years as it haemorrhaged paper losses. When the crash hit, his remaining investors collected $725 million — a historic vindication. In November 2025, Burry deregistered Scion Asset Management from the SEC, posted 'On to much better things' on X, and launched a $379-per-year newsletter warning that AI stocks are the next subprime bubble.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#MichaelBurry #WallStreet #BigShort #StockMarket #Investing #HedgeFund #FinancialCrisis #AIBubble #Scion #Contrarian

In 1928, the president of National City Bank publicly mocked Felix Somary in front of Berlin's top financiers — then the Dow collapsed 89% by 1932. Somary had predicted the American crash as early as September 1926, warned clients out of Austrian bonds before WWI erupted in July 1914, and told London's Royal Institute of International Affairs in 1930 that the Depression would produce Hitler, not communism. He was a Vienna-trained private banker operating from Zurich who called every major crisis of the 20th century — and was unwelcome at almost every table because of it.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#FinancialHistory #FelixSomary #WallStreetCrash #1929Crash #RavenOfZurich #BankingHistory #EconomicHistory #MarketCrash

Bill Hwang lost $20 billion in two days — without a single public filing revealing his true exposure. Using total return swaps, Hwang's Archegos Capital secretly held tens of billions in leveraged positions, and when Credit Suisse issued $2.8 billion in margin calls on March 25, 2021, the entire structure collapsed overnight. Goldman Sachs sold $10 billion in stocks in a single day, ViacomCBS dropped 27%, and Credit Suisse alone lost $4.7 billion. Hwang was arrested on April 27, 2022, charged with racketeering and securities fraud — a man who once founded a Christian ministry on financial stewardship.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#Archegos #BillHwang #WallStreet #FinanceShorts #CreditSuisse #StockMarket #FinancialCrisis #MarginCall #Investing #MoneyShorts

Fall asleep to the stories of Europe’s earliest financial disasters — the original crashes and speculative bubbles that swept through Holland, France and Britain between 1600 and 1720.From Tulip Mania in the Dutch Republic, to John Law’s Mississippi Scheme in France, to the South Sea Bubble in London, this episode follows the first great experiments in paper wealth, credit and stock markets. Tulip bulbs trading for the price of a house, a gambler put in charge of an entire economy, and a company that promised to make Britain’s national debt disappear — each boom ended the same way.These are the crashes that taught the world what a financial bubble was, long before anyone had a word for it.🎧 Best listened to with headphones or a sleep speaker at low volume.⏱ Designed for long, relaxed listening — no ads, no hype, just the story.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#TulipMania #SouthSeaBubble #MississippiBubble #FinancialHistory #MarketBubble #EarlyModernHistory #StockMarketHistory #SleepStories #FallAsleep #SleepyStockMarket #FinancialCrash #EuropeanHistory #MarketHistory #InvestingHistory #FinancialMania

Fall asleep to the story of how America turned speculation into a national pastime in the Roaring Twenties — long before the crash of 1929.After the Florida land boom, the frenzy moved to Wall Street. Ordinary Americans opened brokerage accounts for the first time. Shoe-shine boys gave stock tips. Pool operators and investment trusts quietly pushed prices higher. Cheap credit, margin loans and a belief that prosperity would never end turned a healthy bull market into a dangerous mania.This is the story of how the culture of betting on stocks spread across America — and set the stage for the greatest crash in history.🎧 Best listened to with headphones or a sleep speaker at low volume.⏱ Designed for long, relaxed listening — no ads, no hype, just the story.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#RoaringTwenties #1920s #WallStreet #StockMarketHistory #FinancialHistory #MarketBubble #Speculation #GreatDepression #SleepStories #FallAsleep #SleepyStockMarket #InvestingHistory #BullMarket #1929Crash0:00 Wall Street Awakens (1921)9:00 Buying on Margin Changes Everything18:00 Charles Mitchell & The Demo. Dream28:00 The Fed Lights the Fuse38:00 Everyone Wants a Piece48:00 The Art of the Pool Operation58:00 Jesse Livermore: Born to Speculate1:08:00 Borrowed Money, Borrowed Time1:18:00 The Warnings Nobody Heard1:28:00 The Crash That Broke the Dream1:35:00 Lessons Written in Ruin

Fall asleep to the wild story of the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s — America’s first great property bubble, and a dress rehearsal for the crashes that came later.In the space of a few years, swampland and sandbars were flipped for fortunes as Americans dreamed of a tropical paradise. Speculators bought lots they had never seen. Trains arrived overloaded with new buyers. Charles Ponzi himself turned up in Florida with a property scheme of his own. Then hurricanes hit, the frauds were exposed, and the whole market collapsed even before the 1929 crash.This is the story of how Florida became the playground of the American Dream — and America’s first big real-estate nightmare.🎧 Best listened to with headphones or a sleep speaker at low volume.⏱ Designed for long, relaxed listening — no ads, no hype, just the story.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#FloridaLandBoom #RealEstateBubble #CharlesPonzi #RoaringTwenties #FinancialHistory #MarketBubble #PropertyCrash #StockMarketHistory #SleepStories #FallAsleep #SleepyStockMarket #1920sHistory #USHistory #InvestingHistory0:00 Paradise Promised8:40 Flagler's Iron Dream17:20 The Folly That Won26:00 War Opens the Door34:40 Draining the Everglades43:20 Carl Fisher's Grand Gamble52:00 It's June in Miami1:00:40 Cities Born Overnight1:09:20 The Binder Boys & Paper Fortunes1:18:00 Cracks in Paradise1:26:40 The Bubble Bursts1:32:00 Echoes of the Crash

Fall asleep to the extraordinary story of the South Sea Bubble of 1720 — the financial catastrophe that shook Britain to its foundations, wiped out thousands of investors, and humbled even the greatest mind in history.The South Sea Company made an audacious promise: it would take on Britain's entire national debt in exchange for a monopoly on trade. Shares went into a frenzy. Noblemen, clergymen, servants and speculators piled in. Even Isaac Newton — the man who had calculated the orbits of the planets — lost a fortune. Then it all collapsed in a matter of weeks.This is the story of Britain's first great financial crash, the original bubble that defined every mania that came after it.🎧 Best listened to with headphones or a sleep speaker at low volume.⏱ Designed for long, relaxed listening — no ads, no hype, just the story.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#SouthSeaBubble #IsaacNewton #BritishHistory #FinancialHistory #MarketCrash #StockMarketHistory #SleepStories #FallAsleep #SleepyStockMarket #RobertWalpole #1720 #FinancialBubble #EarlyModernHistory #InvestingHistory #marketbubble 0:00 The Morning That Changed England10:00 War, Debt & Desperate Measures20:00 Birth of the South Sea Company31:40 The King's Endorsement41:40 1720: When Greed Took Over51:40 John Blunt's Dangerous Genius1:01:40 A Nation Goes Gambling Mad1:10:00 The Peak & The Unraveling1:19:10 Panic in Exchange Alley1:28:20 The Reckoning: Who Paid the Price1:41:40 Echoes Across the Centuries

Fall asleep to the extraordinary story of the Great British Bicycle Bubble of the 1890s — the moment Victorian Britain went completely mad for cycling stocks, and one of the most forgotten financial manias in history.In the mid-1890s, the bicycle was the internet of its day. Hundreds of companies floated on the London Stock Exchange almost overnight. Fortunes were made, promoters grew fabulously rich, ordinary investors piled in — and then it all collapsed. Ernest Terah Hooley, the era's most flamboyant company promoter, made and lost millions in the frenzy.This is the story of Britain's first tech bubble — decades before Silicon Valley was even a dream.🎧 Best listened to with headphones or a sleep speaker at low volume.⏱ Designed for long, relaxed listening — no ads, no hype, just the story.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#BicycleBubble #VictorianHistory #StockMarketHistory #FinancialHistory #MarketBubble #ErnestHooley #SleepStories #FallAsleep #SleepyStockMarket #InvestingHistory #BritishHistory #VictorianBritain #MarketCrash #financialbubble 0:00 The Streets of Victorian London8:00 The Tyranny of Horse & Rail17:00 Starley & the Rover Revolution28:00 Innovation Ignites a Nation38:00 Freedom on Two Wheels48:00 The Midlands Boom Begins57:00 Enter Ernest Hooley1:07:00 The Bubble Inflates1:17:00 Mania at Its Peak1:25:00 The Crash & Its Aftermath1:32:00 Lessons from the Mania

For decades, Jeremy Grantham warned that markets were dangerously overvalued. In 2000, he called the dot-com crash. In 2007, he called the housing collapse. In 2021, he warned of the everything bubble. Almost nobody listened — until it was too late.This is the story of how a boy from a Yorkshire mining town became the most respected — and most ignored — voice on Wall Street.In this episode:- Growing up in post-war Britain and winning a scholarship to Harvard- Building GMO into one of the world's most respected asset managers- Why Grantham's value investing philosophy put him permanently at odds with Wall Street- The Japan bubble of 1989 — his first great prediction- How he navigated the dot-com mania while everyone else lost their minds- His warnings about climate change and resource depletion- Why being right too early is almost as bad as being wrongRunning time: approximately 105 minutes.Sleepy Stock Market — financial history told as cinematic bedtime stories.