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.

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The Story of Money

Episodes (319)

Wednesday Introducing: The Story of Money
Wed Apr 1st Finale: The collapse of India’s $22bn tech star
Mar 25th Private credit’s public reckoning

The Story of Money

Apr 15, 2026
1¼ minutes
3 MB

The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped that “there can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.” This show sets out to prove the opposite. Each week, FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth dig into the ideas, personalities and institutions that have shaped global finance. From unregulated banking in 19th-century frontier America to institutionalised debt jubilees in ancient Mesopotamia, and from the birth of credit derivatives to the great market meltdowns of the past, Robin and Gillian uncover the story of money because time...

The Story of Money

Introducing: The Story of Money

Financial Times

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