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Those that don’t research historical past could also be destined to repeat it . . . and lose cash.
The Story of Cash is a brand new podcast from The Monetary Instances exploring the previous to see the place the following alternatives — and disasters — might lie.
Hosted by FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth, The Story of Cash explores the historical past of worldwide finance via the individuals, concepts, occasions, and establishments which have formed it.
From unregulated frontier banking experiments in Nineteenth-century America to institutionalised debt forgiveness in historical Mesopotamia, The Story of Cash traces how monetary methods evolve — and why acquainted patterns usually repeat — providing context for the whole lot from market cycles to rising AI traits.
Watch episode 1: They’re historical past’s geniuses. However had been they any good at investing?
Watch episode 2: How historical Mesopotamians solved runaway debt
Watch the video trailer:
The podcast attracts on the FT’s international newsroom and 138-year historical past of reporting, combining evaluation, storytelling and perception, with contributions from a forged of FT journalists and professional company.
New episodes might be launched weekly on Wednesdays from 22 April.
Watch, pay attention and subscribe without spending a dime on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Story of Cash joins the FT’s community of podcasts, together with the FT News Briefing, Unhedged, The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, Political Fix, Tech Tonic, The Rachman Review and Hot Money.
About our hosts
Gillian Tett is a columnist and member of the FT’s editorial board. She writes a weekly column masking a variety of financial, monetary, political and social points. She additionally serves as Provost of King’s School, Cambridge. Beforehand, she chaired the FT editorial board, and ran Ethical Cash, the FT’s sustainability e-newsletter which she co-founded.
Gillian’s earlier roles included US managing editor for the FT, capital markets editor; deputy Lex editor, Tokyo bureau chief and reporter in Russia and Brussels. She has received Columnist of the 12 months (2014), Journalist of the 12 months (2009) and Enterprise Journalist of the 12 months (2008) within the British Press Awards and three SABEW awards.
She is the creator of 4 books together with Idiot’s Gold, the within story of the 2008 monetary disaster.
Robin Wigglesworth is the editor of Alphaville, the FT’s monetary weblog.
From Oslo, Norway he leads a group of three different writers in London and New York that dig into something deeply nerdy or plain pleasant that they spot in markets, enterprise or the worldwide economic system.
Beforehand, Robin was the FT’s international finance correspondent, US markets editor, deputy head of fastFT, capital markets correspondent and Gulf correspondent.
He joined the FT from Bloomberg Information in 2008, the place he lined Nordic economics.
He’s the creator of Trillions, a e-book on the previous, current and way forward for passive investing, and A Fabulous Debt, a historical past of the bond market.
