The Story of Money
by Financial Times
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Why the French Revolution was a financial revolution - Part 1
Oct 14, 2026
48m 30s
How the US financed World War I using Charlie Chaplin and Girl Scouts
Oct 7, 2026
40m 33s
The bloody birth of the bond market
Sep 30, 2026
43m 18s
Does history show that fraud is the sign of a healthy economy?
Sep 23, 2026
45m 42s
Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever
Sep 16, 2026
43m 31s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 10/14/26 | Why the French Revolution was a financial revolution - Part 1 | The French Revolution was a bloody fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. But it was also a battle over money.In part 1 of our series on the French Revolution, host Robin Wigglesworth explores the revolution’s economic origins with Rebecca Spang, historian and author of Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution. They look at the time of the ‘ancien régime’ and the reign of King Louis XVI, to the storming of the Bastille and the development of a controversial new currency called, at different times, both a “saviour of France” and a “poison".Further reading:Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution by Rebecca L. SpangVote for us! The Story of Money has been nominated for a Signal Award in the Money & Finance category. It’s a Listener Choice award, which means we need your help. Vote for us to win here. We appreciate your support!To enjoy future episodes, be sure to subscribe to The Story of Money wherever you get your podcasts, also on the show's dedicated YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FTTheStoryOfMoneyHost: Robin WigglesworthSenior Producer: Michela TinderaExecutive producer: Kate FordOriginal music and sound design: Breen TurnerVideo editor: Michael SalibaPodcast development: Laura ClarkeFT global head of audio: Flo PhillipsLearn more at www.ft.com/tsom or get in touch at [email protected] a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 48m 30s | ||||||
| 10/7/26 | How the US financed World War I using Charlie Chaplin and Girl Scouts | The first world war was one of the deadliest conflicts the world has ever seen. And when the US entered the war in 1917, it faced a massive financial challenge: how to pay for its contribution? Enter Treasury Secretary William McAdoo who launches the groundbreaking Liberty Loan Programme and - alongside an unprecedented national propaganda campaign featuring silent film stars like Charlie Chaplin, Girl Scouts, even a captured German submarine in Central Park - encourages thousands of Americans to ‘buy a bond’ as part of their patriotic duty.But did it work? And what was the longtime impact? Hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth discuss how this campaign raised over $21 billion - the equivalent of around $9 trillion today - and in doing so, birthed the modern US Treasury market and transformed America into a nation of investors.Further reading: A Fabulous Debt: How Bonds Made the Modern World by Robin WigglesworthTo enjoy future episodes, be sure to subscribe to The Story of Money wherever you get your podcasts, also on the show's dedicated YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FTTheStoryOfMoneyHosts: Gillian Tett and Robin WigglesworthSenior Producer: Michela TinderaExecutive producer: Kate FordOriginal music and sound design: Breen TurnerBroadcast engineer: Gregory BobillotVideo editor: Michael SalibaPodcast development: Laura ClarkeFT global head of audio: Flo PhillipsLearn more at www.ft.com/tsom or get in touch at [email protected] a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 40m 33s | ||||||
| 9/30/26 | The bloody birth of the bond market | The US Treasury market - the world's largest government bond market - is worth about $32tn today, making it the largest pile of debt accumulated in history. But its roots lie in medieval Venice, a bloody military disaster and a leader who was forced to raise a loan to fund a war against the Byzantine Empire.What followed was a catastrophe involving pestilence, defeat and the brutal murder of the Doge, or leader, himself on the streets of Venice. But out of this crisis emerges a financial tool that transformed global capitalism: a tradable loan that offered transparency, accountability and formed the foundations of the modern bond market.In a special live recording from New York, Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth dive into the origins of the world’s first tradable bond. Plus, why bonds remain the ultimate check on government power today and what 12th-century Venice can teach us about current market turmoil.Further reading: A Fabulous Debt: How Bonds Made the Modern World by Robin WigglesworthTo enjoy future episodes, be sure to subscribe to The Story of Money wherever you get your podcasts, also on the show's dedicated YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FTTheStoryOfMoneyHosts: Gillian Tett and Robin WigglesworthSenior Producer: Michela TinderaExecutive Producer: Kate FordVideo Producer: Michael SalibaOriginal music and sound design: Breen TurnerBroadcast engineers: Bianca Wakeman and Petros GioumpasisPodcast development: Laura ClarkeFT Global Head of Audio: Flo PhillipsRead a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 43m 18s | ||||||
| 9/23/26 | Does history show that fraud is the sign of a healthy economy? | How do you tell if an economy is actually working? Most economics classes point to controlled inflation, steady growth, or low unemployment - but what if the level of financial fraud is the real hidden indicator?Robin Wigglesworth and Gillian Tett talk to Dan Davies, financial historian and author of Lying for Money, to hear about some of the wildest and most shocking frauds in history. From 'the great salad oil swindle,' which almost brought down American Express to a fake gold mine in Borneo that ended with a mysterious fall from a helicopter. Together they explore how trust drives modern economies - and how fraudsters continuously exploit it.Further reading: Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World by Dan DaviesTo enjoy future episodes, be sure to subscribe to The Story of Money wherever you get your podcasts, also on the show's dedicated YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FTTheStoryOfMoneyHosts: Gillian Tett and Robin WigglesworthSenior Producer: Michela TinderaExecutive producers: Kate Ford and Manuela SaragosaVideo producer: Michael SalibaOriginal music and sound design: Breen TurnerBroadcast engineers: Bianca Wakeman and Petros GioumpasisPodcast development: Laura ClarkeFT global head of audio: Flo PhillipsLearn more at www.ft.com/tsom or get in touch at [email protected] a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 45m 42s | ||||||
| 9/16/26 | Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever | Long before Silicon Valley, the grandson of a 15th Century German peasant named Jakob Fugger built a mining and banking empire that dwarfed today’s tech titans, accumulating a fortune estimated at $4 trillion in today’s terms. Richer than the Medici, Rockefeller or Elon Musk, he was the ultimate financial mastermind who bought imperial elections, legalised interest-bearing loans, and inadvertently sparked the Protestant Reformation.In this episode, hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth are joined by historian and author Greg Steinmetz to unpack the saga of history's ultimate balance-sheet nerd. From pioneering wire-transfer systems and building the world’s first social housing project to bankrolling popes and Holy Roman emperors, they explore how Fugger weaponised capital, shaped modern finance, and redefined the relationship between money and power.Further reading: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger by Greg SteinmetzTo enjoy future episodes, be sure to subscribe to The Story of Money wherever you get your podcasts, also on the show's dedicated YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FTTheStoryOfMoneyHosts: Gillian Tett and Robin WigglesworthProducer: Lulu SmythExecutive producers: Kate Ford and Manuela SaragosaOriginal music and sound design: Breen TurnerBroadcast engineers: Bianca Wakeman and Petros GioumpasisVideo editor: Michael SalibaPodcast development: Laura ClarkeFT global head of audio: Flo PhillipsLearn more at www.ft.com/tsom or get in touch at [email protected] a transcript of this episode on FT.comRead a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 43m 31s | ||||||
| 9/12/26 | Why Dante put bankers in hell and James Joyce didn't | Is money a tool of moral decay or a force for human liberation? Dante feared money would corrupt and damn us, placing bankers in the eighth circle of hell - just one above Lucifer. James Joyce saw it as a tool of freedom, and markets and trade as vital engines of connection and social mobility.In this special bonus episode recorded live in front of an audience at the FT Weekend Festival in London, hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth are joined by economist and author David McWilliams to explore humanity’s complex, seductive relationship with finance. From 14th-century Florentine banking and the birth of zero in accounting to Joyce’s Ulysses and modern central banking, they discuss how literature reveals why money animates human progress, and why trade remains humanity’s ultimate alternative to war.Further reading:Money: A Story of Humanity (2024), by David McWilliamsLove listening to The Story of Money? Be sure to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and watch full episodes on the show's dedicated YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@FTTheStoryOfMoneyHosts: Gillian Tett and Robin WigglesworthGuest: David McWilliamsProducer: Lulu SmythSenior Producer: Michela TinderaExecutive Producers: Manuela Saragosa & Kate FordOriginal Music and Sound Engineering: Breen TurnerPodcast development: Laura ClarkeFT global head of audio: Flo Phillips Learn more at www.ft.com/tsom or get in touch at [email protected] a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | 41m 28s | ||||||
| 9/9/26 | Jesus and moneycapitalism+4 | Tom Thatcher | Financial TimesJohn, Jesus, and the Renewal of Israel+2 | — | Jesuscapitalism+6 | — | 51m 38s | ||
| 9/2/26 | monetary policyeconomic history+4 | Liaquat Ahamed | Financial TimesGetty Images+3 | OhioLondon | silvermoney+6 | — | 41m 23s | ||
| 8/26/26 | financial regulationWall Street+4 | Brooke Masters | Financial TimesSpoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer | — | Eliot Spitzerfinancial regulation+5 | — | 46m 12s | ||
| 8/19/26 | Islamic commercial practicescapitalism+3 | Benedikt Koehler | Financial TimesEarly Islam and the Birth of Capitalism+2 | — | Mohammedtrader+4 | — | 48m 22s | ||
| 8/12/26 | stock market crashantisemitism+3 | Liaquat Ahamed | Financial Times1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World+1 | — | stock market crashantisemitism+3 | — | 50m 21s | ||
| 8/5/26 | ancient Romefinancial history+3 | Kim Bowes | Financial TimesSurviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent | RomeLondon | ancient Romefinancial sophistication+3 | — | 54m 29s | ||
| 7/29/26 | infrastructurefinance+4 | Richard Sylla | Financial TimesWedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation | New York CityErie Canal+1 | Erie Canalfinance+5 | — | 40m 42s | ||
| 7/22/26 | tradingfinancial history+4 | Robert Armstrong | Financial TimesReminiscences of a Stock Operator+1 | — | Jesse Livermore1929 crash+5 | — | 54m 52s | ||
| 7/15/26 | financial crisisSouth Sea Bubble+4 | Thomas Levenson | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFinancial Times+1 | — | South Sea BubbleRobert Walpole+5 | — | 38m 48s | ||
| 7/8/26 | South Sea Bubblefinancial crisis+4 | Professor Thomas Levenson | South Sea CompanyFinancial Times+2 | — | South Sea BubbleJohn Blunt+5 | — | 52m 23s | ||
| 7/1/26 | private equitycorporate finance+4 | Hettie O’Brien | Financial TimesThe Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself | — | William E Simonprivate equity+6 | — | 55m 27s | ||
| 6/24/26 | US dollar historycurrency evolution+4 | Brendan Greeley | The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money | USBohemia | US dollarJoachimstaler+4 | — | 47m 37s | ||
| 6/17/26 | financial scamsAlbania+3 | Ortenca Aliaj | Financial TimesThe Shock Doctrine | Albania | Albaniafinancial scams+5 | — | 50m 09s | ||
| 6/10/26 | Nixon Shockmonetary policy+4 | Jeffrey Garten | Financial TimesAssociated Press+4 | — | Nixondollar+6 | — | 40m 33s | ||
| 6/3/26 | Nixon Shockmonetary system+3 | Jeffrey Garten | Financial TimesRichard Nixon Presidential Library+2 | — | Nixon Shockgold+5 | — | 39m 09s | ||
| 5/27/26 | financial inclusionwomen in finance+4 | Victoria Bateman | Financial TimesCambridge University Press+7 | — | Priscilla Wakefieldpenny savings bank+4 | — | 46m 36s | ||
| 5/20/26 | Bretton Woodsinternational monetary negotiation+3 | Ed Conway | Financial TimesIMF+4 | — | Bretton WoodsUS dollar+3 | — | 53m 24s | ||
| 5/13/26 | moneycurrency+4 | Felix Martin | Financial TimesMoney: The Unauthorised Biography+6 | Yap | moneyYap+6 | — | 44m 44s | ||
| 5/6/26 | banking historycounterfeiting+3 | Stephen Mihm | University of GeorgiaA Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States+1 | — | bankingcounterfeiting+5 | — | 56m 10s | ||
| 4/29/26 | railway bubblefinancial crisis+4 | Gillian Tett | Financial TimesJay Cooke: Financier of the Civil War+4 | — | railway bustJay Cooke+5 | — | 53m 37s | ||
| 4/22/26 | investinghistorical figures+4 | Toby Nangle | Financial Times | — | investinggeniuses+5 | — | 38m 47s | ||
| 4/22/26 | ancient Mesopotamiadebt+4 | Amanda H Podany | Financial TimesWeavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East | — | Mesopotamiadebt cancellation+4 | — | 42m 54s | ||
| 4/15/26 | finance historyglobal finance+4 | — | Financial TimesFT Alphaville+2 | — | financehistory+5 | — | 1m 17s | ||
| 4/1/26 | tech collapsestart-up failure+4 | Chris Kay | Byju’sFinancial Times | IndiaUS+1 | Byju'stech start-up+6 | — | 31m 13s | ||
| 3/25/26 | private creditinvestment+3 | Antoine GaraEric Platt | Financial TimesBloomberg+4 | — | private creditinvestment withdrawal+3 | — | 27m 25s | ||
| 3/18/26 | diamond industrylab-grown diamonds+4 | Eleanor OlcottLeslie Hook | Financial TimesDe Beers | Henan | diamond industrylab-grown diamonds+5 | — | 23m 32s | ||
| 3/13/26 | Opus DeiCatholic organisation+4 | — | Opus DeiFinancial Times | — | Opus DeiFinancial Times+5 | — | 1m 09s | ||
| 3/11/26 | cryptostablecoins+4 | Nikou Asgari | Bank of AmericaCBS News+6 | — | stablecoinscrypto regulation+5 | — | 19m 59s | ||
| 3/9/26 | podcast awardsaudience choice+3 | — | Behind the MoneyNYC Podcast Awards+3 | — | Behind the MoneyNYC Podcast Awards+4 | — | 0m 39s | ||
| 3/4/26 | televisionfinance+3 | Mickey DownKonrad Kay | Financial TimesIndustry | — | IndustryMickey Down+3 | — | 31m 33s | ||
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| United Kingdom | — | #34 | #34 | — |
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