The Story of Money

Financial Times

FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth dig into the ideas, personalities and institutions that have shaped the history of finance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episodes

The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold

Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor

The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world

Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history

When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America

Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?

Introducing: The Story of Money

Finale: The collapse of India’s $22bn tech star

Private credit’s public reckoning

Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle

Introducing Untold: Opus Dei

Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money

Vote for Behind the Money in the NYC Podcast Awards!

Co-creators Mickey Down & Konrad Kay on ‘Industry’

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

How a private equity pioneer lost its grip on the market it invented