He Made $100M the Day the Markets Crashed - Paul Tudor Jones Chapter 1

He Made $100M the Day the Markets Crashed - Paul Tudor Jones Chapter 1

In October 1987, thirty-three-year-old Paul Tudor Jones made an estimated $100 million in a single day as the Dow collapsed 22.6% — the worst one-day percentage drop in its history. Jones and his research director Peter Borish had overlaid the 1980s bull market on 1929 charts and loaded up on put options before Black Monday hit. What the legend leaves out: Borish later admitted he had massaged the data to make the lines fit, and the model actually pointed to the crash arriving in spring 1988. Tudor Investment Corporation still returned 125.9% net of fees for the full year 1987.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.#PaulTudorJones #BlackMonday #1987Crash #HedgeFund #TradingHistory #WallStreet #MacroTrading #StockMarket

The Predator Who Finally Became The Prey - Carl Icahn Chapter 2

In January 2013, Carl Icahn called Bill Ackman 'the crybaby in the schoolyard' live on CNBC — and by 2018, he'd driven Ackman into a $1 billion loss on Herbalife. But in May 2023, short-seller Hindenburg Research published a single report that wiped out over $7 billion of Icahn's market value in hours. The SEC later revealed Icahn had secretly pledged up to 82% of his own company as collateral for personal loans. The man who spent fifty years raiding corporations had finally been raided himself.🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio. SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history. #CarlIcahn #WallStreet #BillAckman #Herbalife #HindenburgResearch #ActivistInvestor #HedgeFund #StockMarket #Finance #Investing

Wall Street's Most Feared Corporate Raider - Carl Icahn - Chapter 1

An airline printed a magazine asking 'Who's Afraid of Carl Icahn?' — every CEO on Wall Street knew the answer. Starting with a $400,000 loan from his uncle in 1968, Icahn built a takeover machine that forced companies to sell, restructure, or pay him to disappear. His first major win came in 1979 when he flipped Tappan Company to AB Electrolux for a $2.7 million profit after posing as a friendly investor. By 1985 he was closing in on a billion-dollar airline called TWA — and nobody could stop 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. #CarlIcahn #WallStreet #CorporateRaider #ActivistInvestor #TWA #StockMarket #Finance #FinanceHistory

Buffett Begged to Work For Him - Ben Graham .The world's original value investor.

Benjamin Graham lost nearly 70% of his investors' money in the 1929 crash — then rebuilt to return 20% annually for two decades. Graham co-founded Graham-Newman Corporation in 1926, published Security Analysis in 1934, and bought 50% of GEICO for $712,000 in 1948. Warren Buffett tracked him down personally in 1951 and was hired as an analyst for $12,000 a year in May 1954. The man who invented value investing spent his final years telling ordinary people to skip stock picking entirely and buy index funds. 🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio. SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history. #BenjaminGraham #ValueInvesting #WarrenBuffett #InvestingHistory #StockMarket #SecurityAnalysis #WallStreetHistory #1929Crash #GrahamNewman #IntelligentInvestor

The SEC Had The Evidence& Ignored It For 9 Years. - Madoff Chapter 2

Harry Markopolos figured out Madoff's fraud in four hours — then spent nine years being ignored by the SEC. In November 2005 he submitted a 21-page memo naming 29 red flags, and the SEC still closed the case without verifying a single trade. It took Lehman Brothers collapsing in September 2008 to drain Madoff's cash and force the confession. When FBI agents arrived on December 11, 2008, Madoff greeted them in his bathrobe and said: 'There is no innocent explanation.' 🎧 Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history. #BernieMadoff #PonziScheme #WallStreetScandal #HarryMarkopolos #FinancialFraud #SECFailure #TrueFinance #FinancialHistory