Western banks lent billions to Latin America at floating rates. Then Paul Volcker jacked US interest rates to 20%. The debt payments became impossible. Mexico defaulted first. Then the dominoes fell across an entire continent.

A lost decade of collapsed GDP, hyperinflation, and mass poverty. The story of how interest rate policy in one country can destroy the economies of dozens of others. If you hold any variable-rate position, this episode is essential listening.

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An entire stock exchange built on IOUs in a parking garage. $94 billion in postdated cheques in a country of 1.7 million people. When one cheque bounced, everything collapsed.

The Souk Al-Manakh crash is the market disaster almost nobody has heard of, and one of the most insane stories in financial history. No regulation, no oversight, no limits. Just greed, paper promises, and an air-conditioned parking garage in Kuwait City.

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Two billionaire brothers decided they could buy all the silver on Earth. For a while, it worked. Silver went from $6 to $50 an ounce. They held a third of the world's supply.

Then the exchange changed the rules. On Silver Thursday, March 27, 1980, silver crashed 50% in a single day. The Hunt Brothers lost everything and declared bankruptcy.

A story about concentrated position risk, leverage, and what happens when even billionaires forget that the market is bigger than any one player.

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October 29, 1929. By the closing bell, $14 billion in wealth had evaporated from the New York Stock Exchange — more than the United States had spent fighting World War I. The ticker tape ran so far behind reality that traders didn't know they were ruined until hours after they already were. And the crash that followed didn't just end a bull market. It ended a decade, a worldview, and — for millions of Americans — a way of life.

In this episode of Market Mayhem, we trace the 1929 Wall Street Crash from the dizzy heights of the Roaring Twenties to the silent horror of Black Tuesday. We look at how margin lending let ordinary people borrow 90% of their stock's value, why shoeshine boys giving stock tips should have been a warning, how the panic cascaded through Black Thursday into the worst week in market history, and what it all meant for the human cost that

followed: bank runs, bread lines, and a Great Depression that lasted a decade.

We also follow the arc of Jesse Livermore, the legendary trader who

shorted the crash and walked away with $100 million in 1929 dollars, and who, within a few years, had lost it all and taken his own life. His story is a warning inside a warning.

The 1929 crash is the archetype. Every bubble since , 1987, 2000, 2008,

2022 — is a variation on the same pattern. The mechanics change. The psychology does not.

We close with the Mind · Method · Money lessons every modern trader needs

to carry forward from Black Tuesday.

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- How 10% margin turned the 1920s into a leveraged casino

- Why Irving Fisher said stocks had reached "a permanently high plateau"

— nine days before the crash

- The bankers' rescue that worked for three days, then didn't

- Jesse Livermore's $100 million short — and why money didn't save him

- What 1929 teaches you about leverage, crowds, and knowing when to stop

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Silver Thursday and the Hunt Brothers — how two Texan billionaires tried

to corner the entire world's silver supply, and what happened when the

exchange changed the rules on them.

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Market Mayhem is a Complete Trader's Edge production. Hosted by Louw van Riet.

You've been told that serious traders watch markets all day. More screen time, more profit. Ed Seykota spent under an hour a day on markets and turned $5,000 into $15 million over 12 years.

In this episode we break down the screen time obsession using decision fatigue research, a Journal of Finance study tracking 700+ traders, and the story of the man who built one of the first computerised trading systems and then deliberately stopped watching it.

The market doesn't reward your presence. It rewards your system. Episode 2 of Money Myths: Lies Traders Believe.

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Everyone told you to aim for 70% win rate. If you win more trades than you lose, the money takes care of itself. Right?

Wrong. And the math proves it.

In this episode we break down the single most dangerous belief in retail trading — the win rate obsession — and show you why Richard Dennis built a $100 million system that was wrong more than half the time.

You'll learn:→ Why win rate alone tells you almost nothing about profitability→ The expectancy formula that actually determines if a system makes money→ How Richard Dennis trained 23 people in 2 weeks and generated $100M+ with a 38% win rate→ The 3 principles that replace the win rate myth for good

The number that matters isn't how often you're right. It's how much you make when you are — and how fast you get out when you're not.

🎙 Money Myths: Lies Traders Believe — one myth destroyed per episode, with the real trader who proved it wrong.

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─────────────────────────────────────⏱ TIMESTAMPS0:00 The Trader With a 64% Win Rate — Losing Money1:00 Where the 70% Rule Comes From2:30 The Expectancy Formula (the math nobody shows you)5:00 Richard Dennis and the Turtle Traders — Chicago, 19839:00 What's Actually True About Win Rate11:30 The Money Pillar Connection13:30 The Verdict

─────────────────────────────────────📌 NEXT EPISODEEP02: The Screen Time Trap — Ed Seykota made $15M on under an hour a day. More charts ≠ more profit.

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He never ran a billion-dollar fund. He never made a single trade that made headlines. He never appeared on a "greatest traders" list. And yet, more professional traders credit him with saving their careers than almost any other figure in the history of the industry.

This is the story of Mark Douglas, the man who wrote Trading in the Zone, and why the final episode of this series is about the trader who taught the world that the mind is everything.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why a struggling trader became the most important trading psychologist of his generation
• The five fundamental truths of trading that changed how professionals think
• Why most traders fail not because of bad strategy but because of bad thinking
• The concept of "thinking in probabilities" and why it transforms results
• How every trader in this series proves Douglas's central thesis
• Why this episode is the capstone of the Mind, Method, and Money framework

This episode connects to all three pillars of trading: Mind, Method, and Money.

TIMESTAMPS0:00 - The Question (Cold Open)2:00 - The Struggling Trader7:00 - The Five Truths13:00 - Thinking in Probabilities17:00 - The Legacy21:00 - The Final Lesson

Based on Chapter 68 of The Complete Trader's Edge by Louw van Riet.

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This is the final episode of the Greatest Traders series. Thank you for listening.

This is education, not financial advice.

In 1845, Britain staked its future on steam.

Parliament approved 272 railway acts in a single year —

authorising 9,500 miles of new track in a country that

already had a functioning rail network. The Brontë

sisters invested. Members of Parliament voted on schemes

they personally held shares in. And at the centre of it

all stood George Hudson — the Railway King — the most

powerful businessman in Britain, paying dividends from

capital he didn't have, reporting profits that didn't

exist.

The technology was revolutionary. The railways did

change the world. Most of the investments went to zero.

In this episode of Market Mayhem, we go inside the

1840s Railway Mania — the bubble that proves, more

completely than any other in history, that a genuinely

transformative technology and a catastrophic investment

can be exactly the same thing at exactly the same time.

LESSONS COVERED:

🧠 MIND — Why correct technology analysis doesn't

protect you from wrong valuation

📊 METHOD — How to separate the technology thesis

from the company thesis

💰 MONEY — The hidden danger of capital calls and

leveraged commitments

This episode will make you think differently about

every AI stock you currently hold.

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Part of the Market Mayhem series — 18 episodes covering

history's greatest financial disasters from 1637 to 2022.

New episodes every Monday.