The Story of Money
Financial Times Visit website › History · EN · 351 episodes · latest 2026-11-11
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Credit cards are a part of everyday life, consumer debt is widespread and access to credit has helped make America a worldwide economic force. But where did it all begin?According to legend, in 1940s New York when…
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For 80 years, a currency created by France has remained in use across large parts of west and central Africa - even decades after the countries there gained independence. But is the CFA franc, as it’s called, a tool of…
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Hundreds of years ago, across Europe - from Germany to Scandinavia, France to Britain - tens of thousands of mostly women were executed, accused of being witches. The persecution reached its height in the 16th and 17th…
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The French Revolution was a bloody fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. But it was also a battle over money.In part two of our series on the French Revolution, host Robin Wigglesworth tackles the transformation…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Publisher details
- Owner
- Manuela Saragosa
- Oldest episode in feed
- 04/2018 · over 8 years
- Typical length
- 21 min
- Format
- Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone
- Keywords
- finance, markets, business, crypto, banking, investing, History
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