Sleepy Stock Market

Financial history told as cinematic bedtime stories. Deep-dive documentary episodes covering the great market crashes, speculative bubbles, and legendary investors that shaped the modern world.From Tulip Mania to the 1929 Crash. From Jesse Livermore to Jeremy Grantham. Every episode is a feature-length documentary for your ears — perfect for winding down, long commutes, or anyone who finds the story behind the money more fascinating than the money itself.New episodes weekly.

Sleepy Stock Market is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 47 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  How $8.8M Became $22B Then Vanished - A 259,000% Gain -Gone - Julian Robertson

  Aug 8, 20261h 15m

  In May 1980, Julian Robertson started a hedge fund with $8.8 million borrowed from friends and family. Eighteen years later, it was worth $22 billion — a gain of over 259,000 percent, outpacing the S&P 500 by nineteen percentage points every single year. He had survived Black Monday, exposed a billion-dollar copper fraud, and built an army of disciples who would go on to manage hundreds of billions. Then, in the spring of 2000, he walked away — not because he was wrong, but because the market refused to admit he was right. Being right too early cost him everything. Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.#JulianRobertson #TigerManagement #HedgeFund #WallStreetHistory #FinancialHistory #Investing #DotComBubble #ValueInvesting #StockMarket #TigerCubs CHAPTERS0:00 The Letter That Stopped Wall Street1:39 A Boy From the Carolina Piedmont6:11 Twenty-Two Years at Kidder Peabody10:59 Tiger Is Born18:17 The Psychology of Winning25:45 Black Monday and the Bounce Back31:52 The Copper King and the Wizard38:38 Twenty-Two Billion Dollars47:45 The Yen Squeeze and the Dot-Com Tide56:29 Right Too Early — The Final Reckoning

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  The Reddit Trade That Broke a Hedge Fund - Gamestop

  Aug 6, 202659 min

  In June 2019, a financial wellness educator from Brockton, Massachusetts put $53,000 into a stock every Wall Street professional had written off as dead. He posted his analysis on a forum built around catastrophic losses, wore a red headband on YouTube, and held his position through two years of decline, public mockery, and regulatory scrutiny. Then January 2021 arrived — and a Reddit community, a viral tweet, and the most extreme short position in the American market collided in 72 hours of trading that erased nearly $20 billion from some of the most powerful hedge funds on earth. Sometimes the most dangerous investor in the room is the one nobody is watching. Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history. #GameStop #WallStreetBets #RoaringKitty #ShortSqueeze #KeithGill #MelvinCapital #Robinhood #StockMarket #FinancialHistory #InvestingDocumentary CHAPTERS0:00 The Comfortable Short1:25 The Man from Brockton3:34 A Dying Store & A Perfect Setup15:09 The Crowd Finds the Trade18:52 Ryan Cohen Lights the Fuse22:34 The Squeeze Begins32:58 The Morning Everything Broke41:11 Fallout, Silence & Return

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  Jim Simons- The Codebreaker Who Beat Wall Street & TRIPLED WARREN BUFFETT

  Aug 2, 20261h 24m

  There is a fund almost no one on Earth has ever been allowed to invest in, and for more than thirty years it returned roughly 66% a year before fees, more than tripling Warren Buffett. The man who built it, Jim Simons, was a mathematician and Cold War codebreaker who had never managed money professionally. He hired physicists, astronomers and codebreakers instead of bankers, made up to 39 million trades a year, and died in 2024 worth $31 billion - the wealthiest mathematician in history. How he did it is still locked inside a silent building on Long Island. Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history. #JimSimons #RenaissanceTechnologies #MedallionFund #StockMarket #FinancialHistory #Quant #HedgeFund #Investing #WallStreet #Mathematics

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  The $26B Crypto King Who Lost It All - SBF & FTX

  Jul 29, 20261h 16m

  In November 2023, a jury in Lower Manhattan deliberated for less than four hours before finding Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts. At his peak he had been worth twenty-six billion dollars — sleeping on a beanbag, testifying before Congress in shorts, donating millions to charity, and presenting himself as the responsible face of a chaotic industry. Underneath it all, a single hidden line of code gave his trading firm access to an unlimited, invisible credit line drawn directly from his customers' deposits. He stole from the people who trusted him. Part of the Sleepy Stock Market series — financial history told as documentary audio.SLEEPY STOCK MARKETFall asleep to the greatest stories in financial history.#SamBankmanFried #FTXCollapse #CryptoFraud #AlamedaResearch #CryptoHistory #FinancialScandal #FTX #CryptoDocumentary #FinanceHistory #DarkSideOfTheMarkets CHAPTERS0:00 The Verdict1:22 A Mind Built for Doubt6:16 Jane Street & The Kimchi Trade16:18 Building the Machine17:50 The Hidden Backdoor24:29 The Bull Run & The Buyout38:46 The Hole in the Books50:12 The Bank Run1:01:58 Trial, Verdict & Aftermath

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  The Hunt Brothers: The Silver Crash of 1980

  Jul 22, 20261 hour

  In January 1980, silver hit $50 an ounce. A year earlier it had cost $6. Behind that staggering rise were two Texan brothers — Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt — who had spent seven years quietly accumulating one of the largest private hoards of silver in history.This is the story of how they did it, why they did it, and how it all came crashing down in a single catastrophic week that nearly brought the American financial system to its knees.We go back to the beginning: to H.L. Hunt, the wildcatter father who distrusted banks, stockpiled cash, and preached that paper money was a fiction. We trace Bunker's rise through Libyan oil fields, his devastating expropriation by Qaddafi, and the conviction that hardened inside him — that only physical silver, sitting in a vault you controlled, was truly safe.You'll learn how the brothers secretly partnered with Saudi businessmen to pool billions in oil wealth, how they used leveraged futures contracts to amplify their bet to almost incomprehensible scale, and how the COMEX exchange — whose own governors held conflicting short positions — passed an emergency rule that froze the market and triggered the collapse.We cover Silver Thursday in full: the margin calls, the emergency bank bailout, the congressional hearings, and the billion-dollar antitrust verdict. And we follow both brothers through bankruptcy into their very different endings.Whether this was a sincere inflation hedge, a deliberate corner, or something in between is a question that economists still argue about today. We present the evidence and let you decide.If you enjoy financial history told in full, with the human drama left intact, subscribe — we publish new episodes every week. CHAPTERS0:00 The Day Silver Hit $501:38 The Father Who Feared Paper Money4:11 The Sons Who Inherited His Fear7:29 The Libyan Catastrophe20:45 The Secret Saudi Alliance26:55 Silverware Into Gold40:35 Silver Thursday: The Collapse49:08 Bankruptcy, Verdicts & Redemption Subscribe for more financial history documentaries

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