Bronson Arcuri
Bronson Arcuri is a video producer at NPR, where he directs the "Planet Money Shorts" video series and helps out with Tiny Desk Concerts from time to time. He also produced "Elise Tries" and "Ron's Office Hours" along with the "Junior Bugler" series, which he still insists was "pretty good for what it was."
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In the early 1600s there was one stock market with only one company's stock in it, and it didn't take long before someone tried to manipulate the price.
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Here's what Kazakhstan, Hong Kong and Ireland have in common: They all have Irish pubs. And a bunch of them are the product of one man: Mel McNally.
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Buying a lottery ticket is a bad deal. The odds are against you, even with a giant pot. But one guy figured out how to flip the odds in his favor ... 14 times.
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The government manages a lot of things: air and water quality, roads and bridges, and, once upon a time, a whole lot of cheese.
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This is the story of how plastic was invented, and how maybe we went too far with it.
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This is maybe not the best idea.
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For 70 years, a Coca-Cola cost a nickel. The price didn't change. How is that even possible?
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This is the story of how the invention of the 747 and some bad French phone lines led to the creation of the modern credit card.
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A story about hagglers, Quakers and department store founders.