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Episodes: 331
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.4/5.0
Estimated listeners: 10k-100k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: USA
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Host
Gillian Tett - FT columnist Gillian Tett co-hosts the show alongside Robin Wigglesworth, digging into ideas, personalities, and institutions that have shaped the history of finance.
Robin Wigglesworth - FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth co-hosts the show, interviewing guests and exploring the ideas, personalities, and institutions that have shaped the history of finance.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Brendan Greeley - Origins Of The World’s First Dollar (joachimstaler), Evolution Of Money, And Whether The US Dollar System May Be Outlived
Ortenca Aliaj - Living Through Albania’s Post-1990s Financial Schemes/ Ponzi Scams And Collapse, And What It Reveals About Speculation, Weak Institutions, And Public Trust
Jeffrey Garten - Richard Nixon’s Suspension Of Dollar Convertibility Into Gold, Aftermath, And Parallels With Contemporary America-first Policies
Episodes
The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance
July 01, 2026
William E Simon was a bond trader-turned US cabinet secretary under President Richard Nixon. He was also abrasive, polarising and the “father of private equity”, according to Hettie O’Brien, author of The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself. She tells hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth how Simon orchestrated a deal that was so revolutionary, and so lucrative, that it kickstarted the leveraged buyout trend of the 1980s, which later gave way to the modern pri...
The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins
June 24, 2026
Today, when you think of a dollar, the US dollar probably comes to mind first. But that hasn’t always been the case. In this episode of The Story of Money, Brendan Greeley, the author of The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money, explains the origins of the world’s first dollar, the Joachimstaler, and the hapless Bohemian count who played a role in its creation. Greeley, and hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth discuss the dollar’s evolution, and whether it may ev...
The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war
June 17, 2026
In the mid-1990s, Albania appeared to be a nation on the rise. Emerging from decades of isolation and communist rule, people poured their savings into investment schemes that promised extraordinary returns. But many of those schemes were little more than giant Ponzi scams. When they collapsed in early 1997, millions of people lost everything. The financial meltdown triggered mass protests and armed uprisings. The government lost control of large parts of the country and Albania teetered on th...
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