The Story of Money

351 - How the US financed World War I using Charlie Chaplin and Girl Scouts

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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351 - How the US financed World War I using Charlie Chaplin and Girl Scouts

Wed, 07 Oct 2026
350 - The bloody birth of the bond market

Wed, 30 Sep 2026
349 - Does history show that fraud is the sign of a healthy economy?

Wed, 23 Sep 2026
348 - Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever

Wed, 16 Sep 2026
347 - Why Dante put bankers in hell and James Joyce didn't

Sat, 12 Sep 2026
346 - He expelled the money changers. So was Jesus anti-capitalist?

Wed, 09 Sep 2026
345 - 1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose

Wed, 02 Sep 2026
344 - The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies

Wed, 26 Aug 2026
343 - Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?

Wed, 19 Aug 2026
342 - How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

Wed, 12 Aug 2026
341 - The hidden financial world of ancient Rome

Wed, 05 Aug 2026
340 - The canal that shaped American finance

Wed, 29 Jul 2026
339 - The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all

Wed, 22 Jul 2026
338 - The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister

Wed, 15 Jul 2026
336 - South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis

Wed, 08 Jul 2026
335 - The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

Wed, 01 Jul 2026
334 - The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

Wed, 24 Jun 2026
333 - The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

Wed, 17 Jun 2026
332 - When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold

Wed, 10 Jun 2026
331 - Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

Wed, 03 Jun 2026
330 - The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor

Wed, 27 May 2026
329 - The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world

Wed, 20 May 2026
328 - Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history

Wed, 13 May 2026
327 - When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America

Wed, 06 May 2026
326 - Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

Wed, 29 Apr 2026
325 - They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?

Wed, 22 Apr 2026
324 - How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

Wed, 22 Apr 2026
323 - Introducing: The Story of Money

Wed, 15 Apr 2026
322 - Finale: The collapse of India’s $22bn tech star

Wed, 01 Apr 2026
321 - Private credit’s public reckoning

Wed, 25 Mar 2026
320 - Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle

Wed, 18 Mar 2026
319 - Introducing Untold: Opus Dei

Fri, 13 Mar 2026
318 - Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money

Wed, 11 Mar 2026
317 - Vote for Behind the Money in the NYC Podcast Awards!

Mon, 09 Mar 2026
316 - Co-creators Mickey Down & Konrad Kay on ‘Industry’

Wed, 04 Mar 2026
315 - Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

Wed, 25 Feb 2026
314 - How a private equity pioneer lost its grip on the market it invented

Wed, 18 Feb 2026
313 - A hedge fund’s $8bn bet on Venezuela’s Citgo

Wed, 11 Feb 2026
312 - How the Federal Reserve might change under Kevin Warsh

Wed, 04 Feb 2026
311 - Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?

Wed, 28 Jan 2026
310 - The rapid collapse of Saks Global

Wed, 21 Jan 2026
309 - Davos’ fight for relevance

Wed, 14 Jan 2026
308 - Martin Wolf on the economy in 2026

Wed, 07 Jan 2026
307 - As digital scams surge, who’s responsible?

Wed, 31 Dec 2025
306 - The Economics Show: What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler

Wed, 24 Dec 2025
305 - The quiet success of Fidelity Investments

Wed, 17 Dec 2025
304 - Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 2: Is it ‘British’ to pay whistleblowers?

Mon, 15 Dec 2025
303 - Business Book of the Year: Author Stephen Witt on Nvidia’s rise

Wed, 10 Dec 2025
302 - Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 1: The cost of speaking up

Mon, 08 Dec 2025
301 - Coming soon: The cost of corporate whistleblowing in the UK

Fri, 05 Dec 2025

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