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Podcast: The Bunker – News without the nonsense
Episode: From Del Boy to Dogecoin: How we all got hooked on getting rich quick
Description: When did we all start wanting to invest in stock and shares? And who were the winners and losers of the investment boom? Dr Amy Edwards, senior lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Bristol and author of Are We Rich Yet?: The Rise of Mass Investment Culture in Contemporary Britain, tells Ahir Shah about how our lives changed forever in the 1980s as investment became a way of life rather than something you do.
“Investment culture didn’t begin with Thatcher, but it really took off in the 1980s.”
“Our entire culture changed with privatisation.”
“There was a...