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Behind the Money — 340 episodes
1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose
The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies
Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?
How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism
The hidden financial world of ancient Rome
The canal that shaped American finance
The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all
The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister
South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis
The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance
The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins
The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war
When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold
Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system
The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor
The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world
Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history
When money went rogue: banking in 19th-century frontier America
Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers
They are history’s geniuses. But were they any good at investing?
How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt
Introducing: The Story of Money
Finale: The collapse of India’s $22bn tech star
Private credit’s public reckoning
Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle
Introducing Untold: Opus Dei
Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money
Vote for Behind the Money in the NYC Podcast Awards!
Co-creators Mickey Down & Konrad Kay on ‘Industry’
Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
How a private equity pioneer lost its grip on the market it invented
A hedge fund’s $8bn bet on Venezuela’s Citgo
How the Federal Reserve might change under Kevin Warsh
Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?
The rapid collapse of Saks Global
Davos’ fight for relevance
Martin Wolf on the economy in 2026
As digital scams surge, who’s responsible?
The Economics Show: What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler
The quiet success of Fidelity Investments
Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 2: Is it ‘British’ to pay whistleblowers?
Business Book of the Year: Author Stephen Witt on Nvidia’s rise
Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 1: The cost of speaking up
Coming soon: The cost of corporate whistleblowing in the UK
Business History: The Secret of Southwest’s Success
KKR, Bain and private equity’s push into Japan
Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death
What’s the deal with OpenAI's deals?
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk’s $10bn battle over weight-loss drugs
The $17bn nuclear start-up without any revenue
$12bn of debt: How First Brands Group collapsed
Can the world’s largest listed hedge fund rebound?
Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
The meltdown at Nestlé
Elon Musk and the end of a telecom tycoon’s dream
Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Mission to Mars
The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley
Vote for Behind the Money in the Signal Awards!
A subprime auto lender collapsed. Wall Street has questions
Is there a future for the ‘Amazon of Africa’?
How the diamond industry lost its sparkle
Chevron prepares to take on ExxonMobil
Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Will AI ruin music?
Unhedged: The Fed under attack
Palantir’s relentless rise
Why Big Tobacco is buzzing over nicotine pouches
Can Bobby Jain build the next hedge fund giant?
Fixable: How to bring a business back to life
Wall Street banks and private equity’s tussle over junior talent
Introducing Tech Tonic: The rise and fall of Trump’s tech bros
Inside BCG’s Gaza work scandal
A case of Schrödinger’s tariffs
How oil traders called the Middle East war
The end of the UK’s ‘bailout era’
Inside Moët Hennessy’s crisis
How Indonesia cornered the nickel market
Coming soon: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange
Why Blackstone, KKR and Apollo are moving in different directions
Swamp Notes: Trump’s next 100 days
How Trump’s tariffs threaten Ireland’s pharma fortune
GE Vernova tries to shake its parent’s problems
The FTC commissioner fired by Trump
Has Goldman Sachs already chosen its next CEO?
Lessons from the recent US Treasuries sell-off
How China's global trade strategy could backfire
Apple navigates Trump’s tariffs
Why Islamic banking is taking off
Retail’s last barbarian takes on Walgreens Boots
How high gold prices are fueling a chocolate shortage
Inside an investment banking battle royale
Tracking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
Vanguard: can it keep playing disruptor?
The story behind DeepSeek’s breakthrough
Can NYSE stay up all night?
Why Big Oil is resisting Trump’s call to ‘drill, baby, drill'
Mexico faces a deficit – and Donald Trump
Inside Wall Street’s ‘SRT’ phenomenon
Not everyone will win in Trump's M&A revival
What crypto wants from Trump
Business Book of the Year: Author Parmy Olson on the rise and risks of AI
Introducing Slate Money: The Week of Minor Apocalypses
How the AI boom is reviving Three Mile Island
What Trump’s presidency means for banking
Why Northvolt failed to become Europe’s battery champion
Best of: Berkshire after Warren Buffett
China’s economy braces for Trump
Wall Street, tech and energy during Trump’s second term
Private equity’s experiment with worker ownership
US election betting is on a roll
An activist tried to take on Pfizer. Then things got messy
Wall Street’s new trading titans
Could Italy’s UniCredit reignite European banking?
How Netflix is upending Hollywood
Why Volkswagen hit the skids
How a 7-Eleven takeover could reshape corporate Japan
Jay Powell – lucky or good?
Best Of: How Dubai is reshaping the global oil trade
Private credit’s ‘golden era’ shows signs of tarnish
Is business better in Texas?
Is there a bubble waiting to burst in India?
The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes: What’s wrong with economics?
Why executive pay is skyrocketing
Less regulation, more problems?
What the City of London wants from Labour
F1’s American test drive
Best Of: BlackRock goes all in on infrastructure
Will Exxon make or break Guyana?
Bankers vs the Fed: ‘Endgame’
The wrinkle in Shein’s IPO plans
Can anyone afford an NBA team?
Best Of: Inside a hedge fund disaster
Why auditors are missing red flags
Introducing Untold: Power for Sale
Dispatch from Omaha: Berkshire after Warren Buffett
Coming soon: China, the new tech superpower
Was the Archegos implosion illegal?
How shale rewrote the global oil order
When M&A goes wrong
Inside the battle for America’s West
Coming soon: The Five Minute Investor from Money Clinic
Can WeightWatchers survive the Wegovy era?
A surprising winner in the US-China chip wars
A radical change for the US Treasury market
Listener mailbag with the Unhedged podcast
Are penny stocks getting the memestock treatment?
How JPMorgan thrived amid a banking crisis
Is OpenAI’s business model sustainable?
Hedge fund pioneers face signs of a reckoning
Why Elon Musk is breaking up with Delaware
Baidu’s ‘do-or-die’ bet on AI
Is this nuclear power’s moment?
Introducing: Swamp Notes from The FT News Briefing
BlackRock goes all in on infrastructure
An IPO drought pushes investors to a murky marketplace
Introducing Untold: The Retreat
Ozempic’s unconventional origins
Listener mailbag with Martin Wolf & more
TED Talks Daily: The next global superpower isn’t who you think
Author Amy Edmondson on ‘intelligent failure’
The ‘Ponzi scheme’ behind Lebanon’s economic collapse
Could COP28 catapult the carbon credit market?
Inside a hedge fund disaster
Best Of: Why companies don't want to list in the UK anymore
Introducing: Life and Art, from FT Weekend
Citigroup reboots
Coming soon: Superintelligent AI
Will the union ‘renaissance’ last?
Big Oil’s big bet
How Microsoft bagged Activision Blizzard
‘Dumb Money’ writers on the GameStop saga
Bonus: Michael Lewis on FTX & Sam Bankman-Fried
FTC versus Amazon
Argentina’s $16bn saga with a US court
Best Of: Why Apple can’t leave China
The push to dominate the battery supply chain
Coming soon: Can AI help us speak to animals?
The Russian Banker, Part 3: Asylum
Bonus: Arm’s race to IPO
The Russian Banker, Part 2: The Whistleblower
The Russian Banker, Part 1: The Raid
Introducing: The Russian Banker
Did Binance miss its chance to rule crypto?
The controversy around share buybacks
How Dubai is reshaping the global oil trade
Institutional investors take to the pitch
A different way to understand the US economy
Macquarie’s grip on global infrastructure
Frances Haugen’s lessons as a Facebook whistleblower
Best Of: Tracking the mysterious rise of a UAE company
How a big biotech’s start-up gamble went wrong
The downfall of a UK hedge fund titan
Is crypto a security, bro?
Is Africa’s debt cycle unbreakable?
Introducing Unhedged
Libor's long goodbye
Best Of: Inside Johnson & Johnson’s bankruptcy two-step
Does anyone want a digital euro?
Why companies don't want to list in the UK anymore
Night School, Class 5: How to read the markets
Can Intel bounce back?
Night School, Class 4: ESG reshapes the boardroom
How EY’s Project Everest collapsed
Night School, Class 3: Big Tech vs the insurgents
FT Weekend: The secret gamblers using AI to hack horse racing
Night School, Class 2: Why high inflation persists
Why Apple can’t leave China
Night School, Class 1: Green energy’s big year
Introducing Behind the Money: Night School
Best Of: How Russia loots grain from Ukraine
Climate crisis: Who should pay to rebuild Pakistan?
Inside UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse
Martin Wolf on why banks fail and what to do about it
Why SVB’s collapse is not a 2008 repeat
Tracking the mysterious rise of a UAE company
What’s causing the US airline chaos?
The costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Europe’s Big Tech trust buster
The US dollar loses its crown
What’s behind the job cuts in Big Tech?
China's reset
A turning point for Tesla?
Indonesia’s secret to economic success
What we can learn from 300-year-old bubbles
Martin Wolf on the economy in 2023
Credit Suisse's last chance
Best Of: Why VC funding is drying up
Qatar’s $200bn bet on the World Cup
What FTX’s collapse means for crypto
Introducing Tech Tonic, Season 5: Climate tech to save the planet
How Russia loots grain from Ukraine
JPMorgan’s internal feud over wealthy clients
How Republicans weaponised climate investing
Did China miss its chance to fix its economy?
An electric truck start-up founder goes to trial
How Wall Street became infatuated with the music industry
Who will pay for the next Covid vaccines?
The next hurdle for unions in the US
Inside the fight to stop an oil pipeline in Africa
Introducing Tech Tonic, Season 4: A sceptic’s guide to crypto
Blockchain seeks a role in fighting climate change
Is Goldman Sachs too big to change?
Afghanistan one year later
Why central banks are baffling investors
Why VC funding is drying up
The rise of the ‘F@$K It’ investor
Is Sri Lanka’s economic crisis a canary in the coal mine?
Are big corporate profits to blame for inflation?
Why companies could soon pay for climate change
How Spacs went splat
How tea plantations are testing private equity
Introducing: Hot Money
The Fed’s big swing at inflation
Inside Johnson & Johnson’s bankruptcy two-step
Blowing the whistle on ESG
Tether’s path to the spotlight
A crypto vibe shift?
We're back!
Introducing Tech Tonic: The US/China Tech Race
5 - Inside ESG: A sceptic vs a believer, our experts face off
Introducing Working It: Can wellness apps fix us and beat staff burnout?
4 - Inside ESG: Sustainable finance and the threat to divest
4 - Inside ESG: Sustainable finance and the threat to divest
3 - Inside ESG: The tiny fund that took on a US giant and won
2 - Inside ESG: Can businesses really marry profit and purpose?
1 - Inside ESG: Is the $1.7tn wave of sustainable investing hope or hype?
Trailer: Inside ESG
Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant
Financial services after Brexit
Moderna’s race to the vaccine
Reckoning with a colonial past
The unravelling of the Ant IPO
An economic uncoupling
US election programming note
Direct lending rush
Bank profits in a recession
LVMH, Tiffany and a case of buyer’s remorse
Mafia high finance
We're back with a new season
Wirecard: how to find a €2bn hole
Rent, real estate and the commercial mortgage market in the age of coronavirus
A history of police funding
A programming note
The private equity bet that coronavirus cut short
When coronavirus hit America's meat industry
Missing out on the US small business rescue
Running a small business during a global pandemic
Ford, GM and the corporate dash for cash
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Barclays and the legal fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’
Shale's looming credit crunch
How Boeing plans to return the Max to the skies
Season 3 coming in 2020
The state of the Libra project
The repo market
SoftBank’s Masa Son under pressure
Corporate America's new role
Disrupting Big Ag
Luxury's resilient market
Paying for the Caesars empire
Renault, Nissan and Fiat Chrysler's quest for a deal
Warren Buffett's cash dilemma
The unicorn IPO
Encore: how €200bn of ‘dirty money’ flowed through a Danish bank
Encore: Huawei and the fight for 5G
The long courtship between Sprint and T-Mobile
Has the US bank consolidation wave begun?
Suspected £40m fraud at Patisserie Valerie
The leveraged loan market
What next for Detroit's carmakers
Pharma raises its bet on biotech
China's Didi adds finance to the mix
Huawei and the fight for 5G
IBM's next move
The oil sell-off explained
Investors fear 'peak iPhone'
How €200bn of ‘dirty money’ flowed through a Danish bank
The future of dealmaking with Saudi Arabia
The rise and fall of General Electric
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Private equity's debt mountain (encore episode)
Tilray and the cannabis trade
On the front lines of the crisis
Purdue Pharma's 'one-two' punch
Following the cannabis money trail (encore episode)
Khosrowshahi's year at the wheel
Digging into student debt
Taking Tesla private
Tesla’s rough ride
Private equity's debt mountain
Taking a short break
The $100bn SoftBank vision
Trump, trade and the markets
Following the cannabis money trail
The hunt for Fox
The economic crisis in Argentina explained
The dark side of fast fashion
How WeWork really works
How beauty is beating the rest of retail
What happened at Qualcomm?
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