#336 How To Lose A Few Billion Dollars: Samuel Insull
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Do you remember Sam Insul? The billionaire utility tycoon from Chicago? Do you remember how his empire collapsed? And how he lost two or three billion dollars. how the newspapers at the time
Called it the biggest business failure in the history of the world. You may remember the battle that the United States government had To extradite insul from Greece. But chances are You don't remember.
That insul had been in the electric business As long as there had been an electric business. That he had started as Thomas Edison's private secretary in eighteen eighty one. That he
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