170: The Crash of 1929 & Meeting President He...

“‘What is that?' I asked. The Englishman answered calmly: 'It was my best enemy.’”This is the story of the little books that went to war, and the Frenchman whose ghosts we'll read by their light.In 1943, a consortium of American publishers began slipping pocket-sized paperbacks i ...  Show more

Following the Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle disasters, the government had to rethink space exploration. In 2006, NASA launched the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, allocating $500 million to encourage American entrepreneurs to develop cost-effective car ...  Show more

The Roaring Twenties came to a screeching halt on October 29, 1929, with the collapse of the U.S. stock market. A year earlier, president Herbert Hoover had coasted to victory by promising the American people “a chicken for every pot” and “a car in every backyard.” Lured by the p ...  Show more

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: 01:18 - An in-depth analysis of the stock market crashes in 1907, 1929, 1987, 2008, and 2010 06:57 - The similarities between the FED’s monetary policy in 1929 and today 16:02 - How the stock market could decline by 22.6% in a single day in 1987 26: ...  Show more

Cautionary Tales returns with a new episode on May 2nd. Both of the world’s greatest economists, Irving Fisher and John Maynard Keynes, thought they could see into the future and make a killing on the stock market - and then both were wiped out by the Wall Street Crash. One died ...  Show more

In this week’s Talking Wealth podcast, Dale delves into the key causes of why stock markets crash and so you can understand when they will occur and avoid them. Dales takes us back in time to look at the 1929, 1987 and 2007 crashes to see what similarities occurred in these crash ...  Show more