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Spectacular Failures
Corporate crookedness. Family feuding. Hilariously half-baked decisions. Host Lauren Ober tackles some of the most spectacular business failures of all time, and what could have been done to...
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Listen to Spectacular Failures, a Business podcast by American Public Media. Stream 25 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 25 episodesListen to This: The Loudest Girl in the World
The Loudest Girl in the World is a new podcast from that tells the story of Lauren Ober's journey to understand what the hell it means to be...
Listen to This: What's Your Problem?
You may know Jacob Goldstein as the former host of the Planet Money podcast. Now, he’s combining his expertise about the money and business...
Sqirl finds itself in a jam
The Los Angeles restaurant Sqirl had lines down the block for brunches that featured its famous house-made jams on toast. But then a photo o...
NYC Taxi Medallions' steep fare
Even before Uber and Lyft pulled into town, NYC yellow cabs were having a rough ride. Reckless lending practices and inflated taxi medallion...
Subprime times at Countrywide Financial
Before the housing bubble burst, Countrywide Financial was one of the nation’s largest home mortgage lenders. But after years of predatory l...
Pan Am hits major turbulence
Pan Am made air travel cool—from chic crew uniforms to exotic locations to square-jawed flyboy pilots. But a couple of bad business deals, m...
A dairy giant gets milked
Got milk? These days, chances are maybe not. Americans have been saying no thanks for years now, and changing consumer tastes have been bad...
Napster fought the law and the law won
The recording industry, Metallica, and ultimately federal court put the brakes on Napster’s music file sharing. But before exiting the stage...
The toxic tale of the Love Canal fail
When Hooker Chemical sold its infamous toxic waste landfill to the Niagara Falls School Board, the $1 deal left Niagara residents seriously...
The curtain falls on a big Broadway company
Livent was a showstopper of an operation. But eventually, forgery and fraud stole the scene, the money exited stage left, and the lead actor...
Forever 21 goes from rags to riches to bankruptcy court
The mom-and-pop fast-fashion retailer exploded into malls across the globe. But eventually, Forever 21 unraveled like the hem on a cheap cro...
Blue Apron wilts, then rises to a new challenge
The meal kit delivery service was almost belly-up before the pandemic hit. But then people stuck cooking at home gave the brand a lifeline....
Spectacular Failures - Season Two
Spectacular Failures is back for season two, starting August 3rd! 2020 has been a year of fail. Global pandemic, check. Economic meltdown, c...
Trump's big gamble on Atlantic City
By the time the final dice were thrown, Trump's Atlantic City casino operations had gone bankrupt six times. Despite that, Trump won the lon...
Toys R Us goes bust
No amount of nostalgia could save Toys R Us from the private equity firms that owned it. You can follow Spectacular Failures on Twitter and...
Lincoln Savings loses it all
Charles Keating robbed working people of their life savings and cost taxpayers billions of dollars. All under the watch of powerful politici...
The inferno that transformed American labor
The aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire helped usher in higher wages, safer conditions and a prohibition on child labor. But t...
Family fighting sends U-Haul on a detour
Failed therapy sessions, fistfights in the board room and even murder accusations. U-Haul’s trip to bankruptcy will make you think twice abo...
Kodak misses its moment
The world's largest photography company pioneers the snapshot, invents the digital camera and... declares bankruptcy. You can follow Spectac...
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