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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Were Lying - Part 1: The First Clean Lie
Season 5 Episode 1
In the beginning, Enron did not look like a crime scene. It looked like the future. But hidden inside that rise was a small, clean lie. And once that…
4 weeks ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 5: The Price of Belief
Season 4 Episode 5
After the scandal broke open, the accounting began. But accounting is slower than theft. It is narrower. It is often less satisfying. By the time cou…
1 month ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 4: The Day the Story Broke
Season 4 Episode 4
The collapse of 1MDB did not begin with one confession. It began with pressure from too many directions at once. For years, the scheme survived by sp…
1 month ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 3: The Paper Trail of Theft
Season 4 Episode 3
To understand 1MDB, you have to follow the money where it actually went, not where the public was told it would go. That is where the fraud becomes v…
1 month ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 2: The Pitch That Sold the Lie
Season 4 Episode 2
The strange thing about 1MDB is that the pitch was almost too good. It was not sold as a risky deal. It was sold as a sovereign opportunity. A state-…
1 month ago
1MDB: How a Malaysian Sovereign Fund Was Looted for $4.5 Billion - Part 1: The Promise That Opened the Door
Season 4 Episode 1
A sovereign fund was supposed to build a nation. Instead, it became the front door to one of the biggest thefts in modern finance. The first clue was…
1 month ago
FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire - Part 5: What trust cost
Season 3 Episode 5
Once FTX was broken, the fight moved into court. That is where the story stopped being about a glamorous crypto brand and became a record of losses, …
1 month, 1 week ago
FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire - Part 4: Seventy-two hours
Season 3 Episode 4
The collapse did not begin with a verdict. It began with pressure. Then doubt. Then a run. In early November of twenty twenty-two, public reporting r…
1 month, 1 week ago
FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire - Part 3: The hidden pipeline
Season 3 Episode 3
The fraud at FTX was not a dramatic smash and grab. It was a pipeline. Money went in under one promise and moved out under another.The company’s publ…
1 month, 1 week ago
FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire - Part 2: The confidence machine
Season 3 Episode 2
By the time FTX had real volume, the company no longer had to sell an exchange. It sold confidence. It sold the feeling that someone had already chec…
1 month, 1 week ago