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The Unspoken Financial War — How LIBOR's Collapse Reshaped the World
Episode 7
For forty years, the global financial system ran on LIBOR — the London Interbank Offered Rate — a benchmark set daily by a handful of major global ba…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
We Have It in Our Power — The Founding of the Phoenician League
Episode 6
In Episode 6, Joe Withrow tells the story he's been building toward across the entire series — how the destruction of something he helped build becam…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
When a Public-Facing Company Gets Raided: An Insider Account
Episode 5
In Episode 5, Joe Withrow tells the story he's been building toward since the series began — what happened when the investment research company he he…
5 months ago
Breaking Into the Investment Research Industry
Episode 4
Friday evenings, a glass of whiskey, and a stack of research reports from the minds he admired most. Then one night he found an ad tucked inside the …
5 months, 1 week ago
Escape the Rat Race: Mountain Living, Real Estate, and Starting Over
Episode 3
Episode 3: Escape the Rat Race
After two episodes inside the corporate banking world, Joe Withrow makes his move.
In this episode, Joe shares what happ…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Bank of America's Special Assets Group: An Insider Account
Episode 2
In Episode 2, Joe Withrow takes us inside Bank of America's Special Assets Group — and what he found there was worse than anything he saw at Wells Fa…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The 2008 Mortgage Crisis: An Insider Account
Episode 1
In 2009, Joe Withrow was a young banker sitting inside Wells Fargo's loss mitigation department — in an obscure industrial park on the edge of town —…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Age of Paper Wealth is Ending - Welcome to The Phoenician League
Episode 1
The age of paper wealth is ending. Real assets are reasserting themselves. Each week, Joe Withrow — founder of the Phoenician League and veteran of c…
6 months, 2 weeks ago