How to Lose a Billion Dollars in Ten Seconds | Gerald Ratner
- Author
- Imperative Entertainment, Balboa Productions, Honora Productions and 30WEST
- Published
- Wed 05 Jan 2022
- Episode Link
- https://www.friedkin.com/entertainment
"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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