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The Story of Money

Financial Times 346 - Was Jesus anti-capitalist?

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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Published 09 Sep 2026

Duration 51:38

Episodes

346-

Was Jesus anti-capitalist?

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09 Sep 2026

345-

1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose

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02 Sep 2026

344-

The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies

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26 Aug 2026

343-

Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?

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19 Aug 2026

342-

How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

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12 Aug 2026

341-

The hidden financial world of ancient Rome

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05 Aug 2026

340-

The canal that shaped American finance

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29 Jul 2026

339-

The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all

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22 Jul 2026

338-

The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister

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15 Jul 2026

336-

South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis

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08 Jul 2026

335-

The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

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01 Jul 2026

334-

The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

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24 Jun 2026

333-

The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

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17 Jun 2026

332-

When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold

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10 Jun 2026

331-

Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

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03 Jun 2026

330-

The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor

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27 May 2026

329-

The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world

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20 May 2026

328-

Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history

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13 May 2026

327-

When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America

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06 May 2026

326-

Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

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29 Apr 2026

325-

They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?

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22 Apr 2026

324-

How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

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22 Apr 2026

323-

Introducing: The Story of Money

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15 Apr 2026

322-

Finale: The collapse of India’s $22bn tech star

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01 Apr 2026

321-

Private credit’s public reckoning

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25 Mar 2026

320-

Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle

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18 Mar 2026

319-

Introducing Untold: Opus Dei

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13 Mar 2026

318-

Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money

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11 Mar 2026

317-

Vote for Behind the Money in the NYC Podcast Awards!

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09 Mar 2026

316-

Co-creators Mickey Down & Konrad Kay on ‘Industry’

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04 Mar 2026

315-

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

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25 Feb 2026

314-

How a private equity pioneer lost its grip on the market it invented

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18 Feb 2026

313-

A hedge fund’s $8bn bet on Venezuela’s Citgo

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11 Feb 2026

312-

How the Federal Reserve might change under Kevin Warsh

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04 Feb 2026

311-

Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?

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28 Jan 2026

310-

The rapid collapse of Saks Global

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21 Jan 2026

309-

Davos’ fight for relevance

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14 Jan 2026

308-

Martin Wolf on the economy in 2026

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07 Jan 2026

307-

As digital scams surge, who’s responsible?

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31 Dec 2025

306-

The Economics Show: What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler

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24 Dec 2025

305-

The quiet success of Fidelity Investments

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17 Dec 2025

304-

Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 2: Is it ‘British’ to pay whistleblowers?

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15 Dec 2025

303-

Business Book of the Year: Author Stephen Witt on Nvidia’s rise

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10 Dec 2025

302-

Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 1: The cost of speaking up

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08 Dec 2025

301-

Coming soon: The cost of corporate whistleblowing in the UK

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05 Dec 2025

300-

Business History: The Secret of Southwest’s Success

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03 Dec 2025

299-

KKR, Bain and private equity’s push into Japan

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26 Nov 2025

298-

Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death

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24 Nov 2025

297-

What’s the deal with OpenAI's deals?

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19 Nov 2025

296-

Pfizer and Novo Nordisk’s $10bn battle over weight-loss drugs

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12 Nov 2025

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