About this episode

The episode discusses the false news of Napoleon's death and its impact on the British stock market.

Stockmarkets are now battlefields. An aide-de-camp arrived in Dover with the startling, thrilling news that Napoleon had been killed, and the British stock market behaved accordingly. The problem was, Napoleon wasn't dead. SOURCES: Napoleon Is Dead by Richard Dale Trial transcript See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• Napoleon
• stock market
• historical events
• financial news
• misinformation

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