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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
FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire - Part 1: The first lie
Season 3 Episode 1
Imagine a company that looks like the future of money. Fast. Clean. Almost frictionless. Now imagine that behind the glow of that promise, customer f…
1 month, 1 week ago
Theranos: The Blood Test That Couldn't Test Blood - Part 5: Lessons in Trust and Ruin
Season 2 Episode 5
A federal courtroom in San Jose became the stage for a final reckoning. After years of hype, secrecy, and belief, everything Theranos had built came …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Theranos: The Blood Test That Couldn't Test Blood - Part 4: The Fall from Grace
Season 2 Episode 4
It began quietly—just a few questions from a journalist, a little pressure from a regulator. But when those questions finally broke through the wall,…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Theranos: The Blood Test That Couldn't Test Blood - Part 3: The Machinery of Deception
Season 2 Episode 3
What if the miracle machine in the pharmacy wasn’t testing your blood at all? Imagine trusting a technology so deeply that you never ask what’s happe…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Theranos: The Blood Test That Couldn't Test Blood - Part 2: The Seduction of Belief
Season 2 Episode 2
Imagine walking into your neighborhood pharmacy, rolling up your sleeve, and trusting that a single drop of your blood can reveal secrets about your …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Theranos: The Blood Test That Couldn't Test Blood - Part 1: The Spark and the Shadow
Season 2 Episode 1
A Stanford dropout with a black turtleneck and a bold promise—could one young founder really change medicine forever with a tiny drop of blood? Befor…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bernard Madoff: The Biggest Lie on Wall Street - Part 5: The Reckoning
Season 1 Episode 5
The fraud ended in court, but its damage kept unfolding for years. That is the reality of a collapse like Bernard Madoff’s. The headlines arrive fast…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Bernard Madoff: The Biggest Lie on Wall Street - Part 4: The Collapse
Season 1 Episode 4
The end came when the math stopped cooperating. For years, Bernard Madoff’s operation survived by turning new money into old confidence. But in the p…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Bernard Madoff: The Biggest Lie on Wall Street - Part 3: Paper Willing to Lie
Season 1 Episode 3
By the time the fraud was finally reconstructed, the most disturbing part was how ordinary it looked. No secret machine. No cinematic mastermind at a…
1 month, 3 weeks ago