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The Story of Money

Financial Times 350 - The bloody birth of the bond market

FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth dig into the ideas, personalities and institutions that have shaped the history of finance.

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Published 30 Sep 2026

Duration 43:18

Episodes

350-

The bloody birth of the bond market

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30 Sep 2026

349-

Does history show that fraud is the sign of a healthy economy?

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23 Sep 2026

348-

Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever

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16 Sep 2026

347-

Why Dante put bankers in hell and James Joyce didn't

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12 Sep 2026

346-

He expelled the money changers. So was Jesus anti-capitalist?

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09 Sep 2026

345-

1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose

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02 Sep 2026

344-

The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies

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26 Aug 2026

343-

Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?

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19 Aug 2026

342-

How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

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12 Aug 2026

341-

The hidden financial world of ancient Rome

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05 Aug 2026

340-

The canal that shaped American finance

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29 Jul 2026

339-

The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all

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22 Jul 2026

338-

The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister

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15 Jul 2026

336-

South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis

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08 Jul 2026

335-

The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

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01 Jul 2026

334-

The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

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24 Jun 2026

333-

The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

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17 Jun 2026

332-

When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold

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10 Jun 2026

331-

Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

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03 Jun 2026

330-

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

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27 May 2026

329-

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

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20 May 2026

328-

Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history

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13 May 2026

327-

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

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06 May 2026

326-

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

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29 Apr 2026

325-

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

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22 Apr 2026

324-

How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

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22 Apr 2026

323-

Introducing: The Story of Money

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15 Apr 2026

322-

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

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01 Apr 2026

321-

Private credit’s public reckoning

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25 Mar 2026

320-

Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle

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18 Mar 2026

319-

Introducing Untold: Opus Dei

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13 Mar 2026

318-

Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money

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11 Mar 2026

317-

Vote for Behind the Money in the NYC Podcast Awards!

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09 Mar 2026

316-

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

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04 Mar 2026

315-

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

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25 Feb 2026

314-

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

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18 Feb 2026

313-

A hedge fund’s $8bn bet on Venezuela’s Citgo

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11 Feb 2026

312-

How the Federal Reserve might change under Kevin Warsh

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04 Feb 2026

311-

Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?

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28 Jan 2026

310-

The rapid collapse of Saks Global

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21 Jan 2026

309-

Davos’ fight for relevance

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14 Jan 2026

308-

Martin Wolf on the economy in 2026

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07 Jan 2026

307-

As digital scams surge, who’s responsible?

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31 Dec 2025

306-

The Economics Show: What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler

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24 Dec 2025

305-

The quiet success of Fidelity Investments

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17 Dec 2025

304-

Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 2: Is it ‘British’ to pay whistleblowers?

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15 Dec 2025

303-

Business Book of the Year: Author Stephen Witt on Nvidia’s rise

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10 Dec 2025

302-

Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 1: The cost of speaking up

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08 Dec 2025

301-

Coming soon: The cost of corporate whistleblowing in the UK

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05 Dec 2025

300-

Business History: The Secret of Southwest’s Success

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03 Dec 2025

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