Podcast: Financial History, Investment Trivia and Antique Stock Certificates

Available at Stocks for Beginners

When and why did the CIA create a venture capital fund? How did a failed stockbroker become a literary giant? Fred Fuld III from Wall Street News Network discusses Financial History, Investment Trivia and Antique Stock Certificates.

Some of the topics covered in the discussion include:

– The Venture Capital Fund that the CIA created 

– The stock run by the FBI that had a box of clothes as its only asset 

– Bitcoin trivia 

– The first women-owned stock brokerage firm in 1870 

– Celebrity Stockbrokers including Jules Verne 

– The Skirt Length Index 

– The first marijuana stock 

You can listed to the podcast or read the transcript at Stocks for Beginners.