Behind the Money with the Financial Times
By 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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Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system
All the gold in Fort Knox wasn’t enough to save the US dollar -
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 -
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 -
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 -
When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America
The counterfeit money boom that holds lessons for crypto today -
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 -
They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?
How luminaries of the past managed their investment portfolios -
How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt
What we can – and can’t – learn from the practice of mass debt relief -
Introducing: The Story of Money
A history show for finance geeks and a finance show for history buffs -
Finale: The collapse of India’s $22bn tech star
Inside start-up Byju’s global courtroom saga.