In this episode of Run the Numbers, CJ breaks down how stock exchanges became the operating system of modern capitalism. From ship captains raising voyage money, to the Dutch East India Company’s first tradable shares, to coffee house traders, the Buttonwood Agreement, market crashes, Robinhood, and GameStop, this is the story of how markets turned ownership into something liquid, global, and very, very human.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 The First IPO, and Why It Changed Everything

2:50 Coffee, Buttonwood Trees, and the First Insider Trading Scandal

6:31 The Railroads Built Your Month-End Close

10:17 Sponsors — SpendHound | Brex | Aleph

13:47 Buying Stocks on Credit, and How That Ended

18:13 Merrill Lynch Goes to the Suburbs, and the Paper Almost Wins

21:44 Sponsors — RightRev | Rillet | EY

24:47 NASDAQ, Pets.com, and the Most Expensive Sock Puppet in History

28:49 The Phone in Your Pocket Democratized Everything, For Better or Worse

33:03 The Stock Market Was Never Really About Stocks

36:47 Credits

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