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.

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20 episodes
Updated Wednesday

Episodes20

Newest first

Wednesday · 40 min
The canal that shaped American finance
How the Erie Canal created America's municipal bond market
July 22 · 54 min
The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all
Jesse Livermore turned speculation into legend. But his life ended in tragedy.
July 15 · 38 min
The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister
Robert Walpole rescued Britain’s economy – and pulled himself up with it
July 8 · 52 min
South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis
The rise and fall of the South Sea Company
July 1 · 55 min
The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance
It was a conservative Catholic from the Nixon administration who launched the private equity industry
June 24 · 47 min
The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins
The story of the hapless count and the Bohemian silver mine that created the dollar.
June 17 · 50 min
The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war
1997 was the country’s year of financial horror
June 10 · 40 min
When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold
US to the world: “It’s our dollar, but it’s your problem.”
June 3 · 39 min
Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system
All the gold in Fort Knox wasn’t enough to save the US dollar
May 27 · 46 min
The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor
She set up England’s first “penny bank”, an early exercise in financial inclusion
May 20 · 53 min
The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world
The Bretton Woods agreement: a tale of boozing, womanising, espionage and a heart attack
May 13 · 44 min
Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history
What human-sized stones on the island of Yap reveal about the true nature of money
May 6 · 56 min
When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America
The counterfeit money boom that holds lessons for crypto today
April 29 · 53 min
Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers
How a truly transformative technology can still cause a financial crash
April 22 · 42 min
How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt
What we can – and can’t – learn from the practice of mass debt relief
April 22 · 38 min
They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?
How luminaries of the past managed their investment portfolios
April 15 · 1 min
Introducing: The Story of Money
A history show for finance geeks and a finance show for history buffs
April 1 · 31 min
Finale: The collapse of India’s $22bn tech star
Inside start-up Byju’s global courtroom saga.
March 25 · 27 min
Private credit’s public reckoning
Is private credit at an inflection point?
March 18 · 23 min
Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle
The rise of lab-grown stones has shaken up the sector, and established players are struggling for relevance

The Story of Money

The canal that shaped American finance

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

The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister

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

The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

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