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Behind the Money takes you inside the business and financial stories of the moment with reporting from Financial Times journalists around the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Indexed episodes, last 90 days
- 13
- Latest publication
- Sep 23, 2026
- Audience
- Apple #27 · US
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 8, 2026
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Butchers, fake deaths and falling from helicopters: History’s craziest frauds (opens the original)
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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 Wigglesworth and Gillian Tett talk to Dan Davies, financial historian and author of Lying for Money , to hear about some of the wildest and most shocking frauds in history. From 'the great salad oil swindle,' which almost brought down American Express to a fake gold mine in Borneo
Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever (opens the original)
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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 terms. Richer than the Medici, Rockefeller or Elon Musk, he was the ultimate financial mastermind who bought imperial elections, legalised interest-bearing loans, and inadvertently sparked the Protestant Reformation. In this episode, hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth are
Why Dante put bankers in hell and James Joyce didn't (opens the original)
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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 freedom, and markets and trade as vital engines of connection and social mobility. In this special bonus episode recorded live in front of an audience at the FT Weekend Festival in London, hosts Gillian Tett and Robin Wigglesworth are joined by economist and author David McWilliams to e
He expelled the money changers. So was Jesus anti-capitalist? (opens the original)
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What did Jesus really think about money? When he overturned the tables of the money changers in the Temple in Jerusalem, accusing them of turning a sacred "house of prayer" into a "den of robbers", he also set off a series of events that would eventually lead to his death. But what exactly was he attacking? The traders themselves, or the wider economic and religious system they represented? Biblical scholar Tom Thatcher joins Gillian and Robin to explore the financial world of Jesus of Nazareth
1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose (opens the original)
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In 1873, Ohio senator John Sherman quietly helped pass a law that stopped Americans from turning silver into official US money. The consequences were huge: years of economic pain and political turmoil that earned it the nickname “the Crime of 1873”. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Liaquat Ahamed explains how the event squeezed American farmers and fuelled the Free Silver movement, led by the populist firebrand William Jennings Bryan. Host Gillian Tett explores with Ahamed how monetary policy can r
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