The Story of Money

Episodes

• Can economics help explain Europe’s deadly witch trials?

  Oct 28, 2026

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• The French Revolution's disastrous money experiment - Part 2

  Oct 21, 2026

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• The French Revolution's disastrous money experiment - Part 1

  Oct 14, 2026

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

  Oct 7, 2026

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• The bloody birth of the bond market

  Sep 30, 2026

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

  Sep 23, 2026

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• Meet the Fuggers: Europe’s richest family ever

  Sep 16, 2026

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

  Sep 12, 2026

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

  Sep 9, 2026

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• 1873: The year America ditched silver as money and all hell broke loose

  Sep 2, 2026

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• The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies

  Aug 26, 2026

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• Mohammed: prophet, trader . . . and capitalist?

  Aug 19, 2026

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• How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

  Aug 12, 2026

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• The hidden financial world of ancient Rome

  Aug 5, 2026

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• The canal that shaped American finance

  Jul 29, 2026

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• The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all

  Jul 22, 2026

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• The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister

  Jul 15, 2026

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

  Jul 8, 2026

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• The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance

  Jul 1, 2026

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• The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins

  Jun 24, 2026

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