How to Lose a Billion Dollars in Ten Seconds | Gerald Ratner
Jan 05, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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Episode description
"I was being blamed for the entire recession. Everybody hated me. I was public enemy number one." In 1980s Britain, Gerald Ratner, the CEO of the world's biggest jewelry chain, brought *bling* to the masses. Money meant power, and Ratner had it all until an ill-timed joke sent his business crumbling and his life into disrepair.
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