Every company leaves a paper trail

Open Books follows it. Each episode takes a business you know and follows the money through what it actually filed: annual reports, bankruptcy petitions, court records. Who got paid, who was left with the bill, and the decision that sealed it, told in plain English.

Every story comes three ways: written here in full, as a short illustrated film on YouTube, and as a podcast episode. The written version carries every source, numbered in the text and listed at the end.

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