Tony with his arms crossed, holding cash

Who is Tony

A cartoon made of blocks who wants to know where the money goes.

Tony walks into the places everyone walks into, a buffet, a pawn shop, a motel off the highway, and comes out with the one number that explains the whole business.

Tony Talks Business is about how everyday businesses make their money. Most of them make it somewhere you were not looking.

Tony Talks History is about true stories from the past with a money engine inside them.

The rule

Tony works from sources: company filings, official records and reporting. The aim is that a figure in a video can be traced to where it came from, and a claim that cannot be checked stays out. Many of the video pages on this site list the key numbers and their sources.

How the videos are made

Tony Talks is made with AI. The pictures are drawn by a machine.

A person decides what is true, what goes in and what gets cut. If a number in a video looks wrong, tell Tony and it gets looked at.