The Hubris Files

Every collapse has the same shape: a brilliant story, a room full of smart people who wanted to believe it, and a set of numbers nobody wanted to check. The Hubris Files tells the real stories behind history's biggest corporate scandals, financial frauds, and economic collapses — WeWork, Theranos, FTX, the South Sea Bubble, currency crises, and the founders and financiers who convinced the smartest money in the world to look away. One deeply researched case study a week. Subscribe for the story behind the headline.