The Story of Money

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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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Can economics help explain Europe’s deadly witch trials?

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Can economics help explain Europe’s deadly witch trials?
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The French Revolution's disastrous money experiment - Part 2

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The French Revolution's disastrous money experiment - Part 2
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Why the French Revolution was a financial revolution - Part 1

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Why the French Revolution was a financial revolution - Part 1
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How the US financed World War I using Charlie Chaplin and Girl Scouts

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How the US financed World War I using Charlie Chaplin and Girl Scouts
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The bloody birth of the bond market

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The bloody birth of the bond market
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Butchers, fake deaths and falling from helicopters: History’s craziest frauds

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Butchers, fake deaths and falling from helicopters: History’s craziest frauds
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Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever

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Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever
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Why Dante put bankers in hell and James Joyce didn't

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Why Dante put bankers in hell and James Joyce didn't
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He expelled the money changers. So was Jesus anti-capitalist?

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He expelled the money changers. So was Jesus anti-capitalist?
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1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose

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1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose
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The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies

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The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies
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Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?

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Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?
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How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

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How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism
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The hidden financial world of ancient Rome

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The hidden financial world of ancient Rome
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The canal that shaped American finance

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The canal that shaped American finance
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The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all

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The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all
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The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister

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The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister
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South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis

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South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis
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The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

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The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance
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The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

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The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins
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The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

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The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war
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When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold

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When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold
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Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

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Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system
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The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor

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The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor
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The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world

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The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world
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Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history

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Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history
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When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America

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When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America
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Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

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

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How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

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