# Gillian Tett

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On the Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street Crash

In this episode, Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses lessons from the 1929 Wall Street crash, followed by a panel discussion on the present-day risk of a bubble, and how policymakers should respond.   Host: Gillian Tett, Columnist and Member of the Editorial Board, Financial Times; Head, King’s College,…

On the Lessons of the 1929 Wall Street Crash

In this episode, Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses lessons from the 1929 Wall Street crash, followed by a panel discussion on the present-day risk of a bubble, and how policymakers should respond.   Host: Gillian Tett, Columnist and Member of the Editorial Board, Financial Times; Head, King’s College,…

Episode 5 - The Story of Money

What actually is money? This new podcast from the Financial Times takes a historical view of this question which is crucial to understanding human civilisation and the world we live in today. Robin Wigglesworth, who co-hosts the show with fellow FT journalist Gillian Tett, picks some of his favouri…

He expelled the money changers. So was Jesus anti-capitalist?

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 a…

Why Dante put bankers in hell and James Joyce didn't

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 …

Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever

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 fi…

Does history show that fraud is the sign of a healthy economy?

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…

The bloody birth of the bond market

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 disaster and a leader who was forced to raise a loan to fund a war against the Byzanti…

'Real Time' Crowd Shocked by Bill Maher's Angry Reaction to Media's Lie

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about the "Real Time with Bill Maher" audience going wild for Bill Maher's brutal takedown of mainstream media outlets for being afraid of using the word terrorism when discussing the hijacking of the Flydubai by a radical Islamist pilot; Gillian Tett shocking…

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

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 William McAdoo who launches the groundbreaking Liberty Loan Programme and - alon…