History

History: 1000x Returns on Toys

Apr 24

History: Tetra Pak

Intro Did you know that the brand Tetra Pak comes from “Tetrahedron Packaging”?

Apr 18

The Traitorous Eight

Apr 12

History: Marlboro

A Family Business

Apr 11

History: Creative Technology

Old Enough to Know

Mar 29

History: Insurance Pyramid Fraud

Intro Equity Funding Corporation of America was a Los Angeles-based financial services company founded in the early 1960s, specializing in the sale of…

Mar 23

History: First Ever Negative Coupon Note

Financial Meltdown

Feb 18

History: LVMH & Tiffany Acquisition Drama

Feb 15

History: Rockwood Cocoa Arbitrage

Intro Readers who are in the investing community would be familiar with Warren Buffett and his mentor Ben Graham.

Feb 13

History: Fire and Reinsurance

Spreading of Risk

Jan 29

History: Charlie Munger’s Belridge Oil Investment

Intro It’s well known that Charlie Munger had a big influence on Warren Buffett in terms of buying quality companies rather than focusing on cheap…

Jan 19

History: Chicken Mania

Intro The history of finance has many stories of speculative mania that centered around commodities.

Jan 19

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