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Behind the Money — 332 episodes

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

2

The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

3

The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

4

The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war

5

When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold

6

Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system

7

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

8

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

9

Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

How ancient Mesopotamians solved runaway debt

14

Introducing: The Story of Money

15

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

16

Private credit’s public reckoning

17

Best of: How the diamond industry lost its sparkle

18

Introducing Untold: Opus Dei

19

Wall Street and crypto battle over the future of money

20

Vote for Behind the Money in the NYC Podcast Awards!

21

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

22

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown

23

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

24

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

25

How the Federal Reserve might change under Kevin Warsh

26

Can Wells Fargo make it in investment banking?

27

The rapid collapse of Saks Global

28

Davos’ fight for relevance

29

Martin Wolf on the economy in 2026

30

As digital scams surge, who’s responsible?

31

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

32

The quiet success of Fidelity Investments

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

Coming soon: The cost of corporate whistleblowing in the UK

37

Business History: The Secret of Southwest’s Success

38

KKR, Bain and private equity’s push into Japan

39

Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death

40

What’s the deal with OpenAI's deals?

41

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

42

The $17bn nuclear start-up without any revenue

43

$12bn of debt: How First Brands Group collapsed

44

Can the world’s largest listed hedge fund rebound?

45

Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy

46

The meltdown at Nestlé

47

Elon Musk and the end of a telecom tycoon’s dream

48

Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Mission to Mars

49

The unsustainable boom in India’s Silicon Valley

50

Vote for Behind the Money in the Signal Awards!

51

A subprime auto lender collapsed. Wall Street has questions

52

Is there a future for the ‘Amazon of Africa’?

53

How the diamond industry lost its sparkle

54

Chevron prepares to take on ExxonMobil

55

Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Will AI ruin music?

56

Unhedged: The Fed under attack

57

Palantir’s relentless rise

58

Why Big Tobacco is buzzing over nicotine pouches

59

Can Bobby Jain build the next hedge fund giant?

60

Fixable: How to bring a business back to life

61

Wall Street banks and private equity’s tussle over junior talent

62

Introducing Tech Tonic: The rise and fall of Trump’s tech bros

63

Inside BCG’s Gaza work scandal

64

A case of Schrödinger’s tariffs

65

How oil traders called the Middle East war

66

The end of the UK’s ‘bailout era’

67

Inside Moët Hennessy’s crisis

68

How Indonesia cornered the nickel market

69

Coming soon: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange

70

Why Blackstone, KKR and Apollo are moving in different directions

71

Swamp Notes: Trump’s next 100 days

72

How Trump’s tariffs threaten Ireland’s pharma fortune

73

GE Vernova tries to shake its parent’s problems

74

The FTC commissioner fired by Trump

75

Has Goldman Sachs already chosen its next CEO?

76

Lessons from the recent US Treasuries sell-off

77

How China's global trade strategy could backfire

78

Apple navigates Trump’s tariffs

79

Why Islamic banking is taking off

80

Retail’s last barbarian takes on Walgreens Boots

81

How high gold prices are fueling a chocolate shortage

82

Inside an investment banking battle royale

83

Tracking Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’

84

Vanguard: can it keep playing disruptor?

85

The story behind DeepSeek’s breakthrough

86

Can NYSE stay up all night?

87

Why Big Oil is resisting Trump’s call to ‘drill, baby, drill'

88

Mexico faces a deficit – and Donald Trump

89

Inside Wall Street’s ‘SRT’ phenomenon

90

Not everyone will win in Trump's M&A revival

91

What crypto wants from Trump

92

Business Book of the Year: Author Parmy Olson on the rise and risks of AI

93

Introducing Slate Money: The Week of Minor Apocalypses

94

How the AI boom is reviving Three Mile Island

95

What Trump’s presidency means for banking

96

Why Northvolt failed to become Europe’s battery champion

97

Best of: Berkshire after Warren Buffett

98

China’s economy braces for Trump

99

Wall Street, tech and energy during Trump’s second term

100

Private equity’s experiment with worker ownership

101

US election betting is on a roll

102

An activist tried to take on Pfizer. Then things got messy

103

Wall Street’s new trading titans

104

Could Italy’s UniCredit reignite European banking?

105

How Netflix is upending Hollywood

106

Why Volkswagen hit the skids

107

How a 7-Eleven takeover could reshape corporate Japan

108

Jay Powell – lucky or good?

109

Best Of: How Dubai is reshaping the global oil trade

110

Private credit’s ‘golden era’ shows signs of tarnish

111

Is business better in Texas?

112

Is there a bubble waiting to burst in India?

113

The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes: What’s wrong with economics?

114

Why executive pay is skyrocketing

115

Less regulation, more problems?

116

What the City of London wants from Labour

117

F1’s American test drive

118

Best Of: BlackRock goes all in on infrastructure

119

Will Exxon make or break Guyana?

120

Bankers vs the Fed: ‘Endgame’

121

The wrinkle in Shein’s IPO plans

122

Can anyone afford an NBA team?

123

Best Of: Inside a hedge fund disaster

124

Why auditors are missing red flags

125

Introducing Untold: Power for Sale

126

Dispatch from Omaha: Berkshire after Warren Buffett

127

Coming soon: China, the new tech superpower

128

Was the Archegos implosion illegal?

129

How shale rewrote the global oil order

130

When M&A goes wrong

131

Inside the battle for America’s West

132

Coming soon: The Five Minute Investor from Money Clinic

133

Can WeightWatchers survive the Wegovy era?

134

A surprising winner in the US-China chip wars

135

A radical change for the US Treasury market

136

Listener mailbag with the Unhedged podcast

137

Are penny stocks getting the memestock treatment?

138

How JPMorgan thrived amid a banking crisis

139

Is OpenAI’s business model sustainable?

140

Hedge fund pioneers face signs of a reckoning

141

Why Elon Musk is breaking up with Delaware

142

Baidu’s ‘do-or-die’ bet on AI

143

Is this nuclear power’s moment?

144

Introducing: Swamp Notes from The FT News Briefing

145

BlackRock goes all in on infrastructure

146

An IPO drought pushes investors to a murky marketplace

147

Introducing Untold: The Retreat

148

Ozempic’s unconventional origins

149

Listener mailbag with Martin Wolf & more

150

TED Talks Daily: The next global superpower isn’t who you think

151

Author Amy Edmondson on ‘intelligent failure’

152

The ‘Ponzi scheme’ behind Lebanon’s economic collapse

153

Could COP28 catapult the carbon credit market?

154

Inside a hedge fund disaster

155

Best Of: Why companies don't want to list in the UK anymore

156

Introducing: Life and Art, from FT Weekend

157

Citigroup reboots

158

Coming soon: Superintelligent AI

159

Will the union ‘renaissance’ last?

160

Big Oil’s big bet

161

How Microsoft bagged Activision Blizzard

162

‘Dumb Money’ writers on the GameStop saga

163

Bonus: Michael Lewis on FTX & Sam Bankman-Fried

164

FTC versus Amazon

165

Argentina’s $16bn saga with a US court

166

Best Of: Why Apple can’t leave China

167

The push to dominate the battery supply chain

168

Coming soon: Can AI help us speak to animals?

169

The Russian Banker, Part 3: Asylum

170

Bonus: Arm’s race to IPO

171

The Russian Banker, Part 2: The Whistleblower

172

The Russian Banker, Part 1: The Raid

173

Introducing: The Russian Banker

174

Did Binance miss its chance to rule crypto?

175

The controversy around share buybacks

176

How Dubai is reshaping the global oil trade

177

Institutional investors take to the pitch

178

A different way to understand the US economy

179

Macquarie’s grip on global infrastructure

180

Frances Haugen’s lessons as a Facebook whistleblower

181

Best Of: Tracking the mysterious rise of a UAE company

182

How a big biotech’s start-up gamble went wrong

183

The downfall of a UK hedge fund titan

184

Is crypto a security, bro?

185

Is Africa’s debt cycle unbreakable?

186

Introducing Unhedged

187

Libor's long goodbye

188

Best Of: Inside Johnson & Johnson’s bankruptcy two-step

189

Does anyone want a digital euro?

190

Why companies don't want to list in the UK anymore

191

Night School, Class 5: How to read the markets

192

Can Intel bounce back?

193

Night School, Class 4: ESG reshapes the boardroom

194

How EY’s Project Everest collapsed

195

Night School, Class 3: Big Tech vs the insurgents

196

FT Weekend: The secret gamblers using AI to hack horse racing

197

Night School, Class 2: Why high inflation persists

198

Why Apple can’t leave China

199

Night School, Class 1: Green energy’s big year

200

Introducing Behind the Money: Night School

201

Best Of: How Russia loots grain from Ukraine

202

Climate crisis: Who should pay to rebuild Pakistan?

203

Inside UBS’s takeover of Credit Suisse

204

Martin Wolf on why banks fail and what to do about it

205

Why SVB’s collapse is not a 2008 repeat

206

Tracking the mysterious rise of a UAE company

207

What’s causing the US airline chaos?

208

The costs of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

209

Europe’s Big Tech trust buster

210

The US dollar loses its crown

211

What’s behind the job cuts in Big Tech?

212

China's reset

213

A turning point for Tesla?

214

Indonesia’s secret to economic success

215

What we can learn from 300-year-old bubbles

216

Martin Wolf on the economy in 2023

217

Credit Suisse's last chance

218

Best Of: Why VC funding is drying up

219

Qatar’s $200bn bet on the World Cup

220

What FTX’s collapse means for crypto

221

Introducing Tech Tonic, Season 5: Climate tech to save the planet

222

How Russia loots grain from Ukraine

223

JPMorgan’s internal feud over wealthy clients

224

How Republicans weaponised climate investing

225

Did China miss its chance to fix its economy?

226

An electric truck start-up founder goes to trial

227

How Wall Street became infatuated with the music industry

228

Who will pay for the next Covid vaccines?

229

The next hurdle for unions in the US

230

Inside the fight to stop an oil pipeline in Africa

231

Introducing Tech Tonic, Season 4: A sceptic’s guide to crypto

232

Blockchain seeks a role in fighting climate change

233

Is Goldman Sachs too big to change?

234

Afghanistan one year later

235

Why central banks are baffling investors

236

Why VC funding is drying up

237

The rise of the ‘F@$K It’ investor

238

Is Sri Lanka’s economic crisis a canary in the coal mine?

239

Are big corporate profits to blame for inflation?

240

Why companies could soon pay for climate change

241

How Spacs went splat

242

How tea plantations are testing private equity

243

Introducing: Hot Money

244

The Fed’s big swing at inflation

245

Inside Johnson & Johnson’s bankruptcy two-step

246

Blowing the whistle on ESG

247

Tether’s path to the spotlight

248

A crypto vibe shift?

249

We're back!

250

Introducing Tech Tonic: The US/China Tech Race

251

5 - Inside ESG: A sceptic vs a believer, our experts face off

252

Introducing Working It: Can wellness apps fix us and beat staff burnout?

253

4 - Inside ESG: Sustainable finance and the threat to divest

254

4 - Inside ESG: Sustainable finance and the threat to divest

255

3 - Inside ESG: The tiny fund that took on a US giant and won

256

2 - Inside ESG: Can businesses really marry profit and purpose?

257

1 - Inside ESG: Is the $1.7tn wave of sustainable investing hope or hype?

258

Trailer: Inside ESG

259

Introducing Tech Tonic: You Can’t Always Get What you Quant

260

Financial services after Brexit

261

Moderna’s race to the vaccine

262

Reckoning with a colonial past

263

The unravelling of the Ant IPO

264

An economic uncoupling

265

US election programming note

266

Direct lending rush

267

Bank profits in a recession

268

LVMH, Tiffany and a case of buyer’s remorse

269

Mafia high finance

270

We're back with a new season

271

Wirecard: how to find a €2bn hole

272

Rent, real estate and the commercial mortgage market in the age of coronavirus

273

A history of police funding

274

A programming note

275

The private equity bet that coronavirus cut short

276

When coronavirus hit America's meat industry

277

Missing out on the US small business rescue

278

Running a small business during a global pandemic

279

Ford, GM and the corporate dash for cash

280

We want to hear from you

281

Barclays and the legal fight over a company’s ‘controlling mind’

282

Shale's looming credit crunch

283

How Boeing plans to return the Max to the skies

284

Season 3 coming in 2020

285

The state of the Libra project

286

The repo market

287

SoftBank’s Masa Son under pressure

288

Corporate America's new role

289

Disrupting Big Ag

290

Luxury's resilient market

291

Paying for the Caesars empire

292

Renault, Nissan and Fiat Chrysler's quest for a deal

293

Warren Buffett's cash dilemma

294

The unicorn IPO

295

Encore: how €200bn of ‘dirty money’ flowed through a Danish bank

296

Encore: Huawei and the fight for 5G

297

The long courtship between Sprint and T-Mobile

298

Has the US bank consolidation wave begun?

299

Suspected £40m fraud at Patisserie Valerie

300

The leveraged loan market

301

What next for Detroit's carmakers

302

Pharma raises its bet on biotech

303

China's Didi adds finance to the mix

304

Huawei and the fight for 5G

305

IBM's next move

306

The oil sell-off explained

307

Investors fear 'peak iPhone'

308

How €200bn of ‘dirty money’ flowed through a Danish bank

309

The future of dealmaking with Saudi Arabia

310

The rise and fall of General Electric

311

Tune in Wednesday

312

Private equity's debt mountain (encore episode)

313

Tilray and the cannabis trade

314

On the front lines of the crisis

315

Purdue Pharma's 'one-two' punch

316

Following the cannabis money trail (encore episode)

317

Khosrowshahi's year at the wheel

318

Digging into student debt

319

Taking Tesla private

320

Tesla’s rough ride

321

Private equity's debt mountain

322

Taking a short break

323

The $100bn SoftBank vision

324

Trump, trade and the markets

325

Following the cannabis money trail

326

The hunt for Fox

327

The economic crisis in Argentina explained

328

The dark side of fast fashion

329

How WeWork really works

330

How beauty is beating the rest of retail

331

What happened at Qualcomm?

332

Coming soon