The long view of finance, markets and money as seen by two veteran City editors, Neil Collins and Jonathan Ford, presented in partnership with The Library of Mistakes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Art of the Squeal
25 mins; April 03, 2026
The Turning Point: Kodak's Digital Asteroid
41 mins; March 20, 2026
The Turning Point: The Story of ASML
33 mins; March 06, 2026
The Derailment of Railtrack
29 mins; February 06, 2026
New Year Special: The Guinness Scandal
29 mins; January 02, 2026
How Britain Lost Its Shipbuilding Industry
30 mins; December 05, 2025
Britain's Energy Disaster
31 mins; November 21, 2025
Barbarians at the Gate: A Short History of Private Equity
33 mins; November 07, 2025
Britain's Melmotte? The Cautionary Tale of Robert Maxwell
30 mins; October 24, 2025
The Green Shield Stamp Story
30 mins; October 10, 2025
The Art of the Shred
34 mins; September 26, 2025
The Great QE Rip-off
26 mins; September 12, 2025
The Spiders That Ate Ebbsfleet
24 mins; August 29, 2025
Talking War-onomics
32 mins; June 13, 2025
Making Plans for British Steel
33 mins; May 02, 2025
The Rearmament Pod: Lessons From Hard Times in the 1930s
30 mins; April 18, 2025
Iraq, Minerals and the Art of the Deal
30 mins; March 14, 2025
1976: The Year Britain Went Bust
26 mins; January 31, 2025
Why Germans Don't Do it Better
26 mins; January 10, 2025
The Bretton Woods System
25 mins; December 06, 2024
The John Stonehouse Affair
23 mins; November 22, 2024
The Mystery of Dame Linda Dobbs
27 mins; October 11, 2024
Living in a Material World
26 mins; September 27, 2024
Ashes to Ashes: The Decline And Fall of Coal-Fired Electricity
27 mins; September 06, 2024
Overpaid and Unaccountable
27 mins; July 26, 2024
An Audience With The Bond Market's Wyatt Earp
28 mins; July 19, 2024
Libor and the Law
34 mins; July 06, 2024
The Great Online Money Laundry
27 mins; June 14, 2024
From The Corset to Help To Buy: A British Housing Story (Part 2)
25 mins; June 07, 2024
From The Corset to Help To Buy: A British Housing Story (Part 1)
26 mins; May 31, 2024
The Amazon Octopus
27 mins; May 17, 2024
Michael Jensen: High Priest of Greed
23 mins; April 12, 2024
Fallen Angels: Thames Water Circles the Plughole
24 mins; April 05, 2024
Fallen Angels: GEC/Marconi - From Bellwether to Basket Case
23 mins; March 29, 2024
Fallen Angels: The Fall of the House of ICI
23 mins; March 22, 2024
The Internet, AI, And the Madness of Crowds
26 mins; March 08, 2024
The Economic Consequences of Roger Bootle
24 mins; March 01, 2024
BP, Black Monday and Nigel Lawson's Big Bet
23 mins; February 23, 2024
Tell Sid: Popular Capitalism and the Thatcher Revolution
25 mins; February 16, 2024
Tell Sid: Popular Capitalism and the Thatcher Revolution
42 mins; February 16, 2024
The Price Is Wrong: Why Free Markets And Climate Don't Mix
30 mins; February 09, 2024
Zen And The Art of Motor Car Maintenance
22 mins; February 02, 2024
The Weird World of The Barclay Twins
25 mins; January 26, 2024
The Ups and Downs of Bill Gross, Bond King
26 mins; January 19, 2024
How to Get Big Things Done
25 mins; January 12, 2024
An Atomic Awakening? Or Another Big Zzzzz?
28 mins; December 22, 2023
The Strange Non Death of Crypto
26 mins; December 15, 2023
Legal Bullying and the War on Truth
28 mins; December 08, 2023
The Problem of The Twelve
29 mins; December 01, 2023
Carbon Offsets: Dude, Where's My Trees?
33 mins; November 03, 2023
The Great Private Equity Tax Swindle
24 mins; October 27, 2023
As Good As Gold?
23 mins; October 06, 2023
Shortspiracy: The Apes v Wall Street
22 mins; September 29, 2023
The Trussquake - One Year Later
24 mins; September 22, 2023
Nutrient Neutrality
22 mins; September 15, 2023
The Nine Lives of Credit Suisse: Part Two
35 mins; September 08, 2023
The Nine Lives of Credit Suisse: Part One
45 mins; September 01, 2023
Renewables: Bad for Your Wealth?
24 mins; August 25, 2023
Car Trouble
24 mins; August 18, 2023
The Practicalities of Net Zero
25 mins; August 11, 2023
Rolling the Dice on British Pensions
24 mins; July 14, 2023
Not Waving But Drowning (in Debt)
23 mins; July 07, 2023
Power to the People!
20 mins; June 30, 2023
Oh, Who Will Buy My Lovely Houses?
24 mins; June 23, 2023
Is Going Vertical the Future of Farming?
27 mins; June 16, 2023
China and the West: A Case of Conscious Uncoupling?
25 mins; June 09, 2023
Is the Sun Rising on Japan?
21 mins; June 02, 2023
Investment Made Simple (But Not Easy)
24 mins; May 19, 2023
"Hosepipes No; Dividends Yes!"
25 mins; May 12, 2023
Man United and the Football South Sea Bubble
24 mins; May 05, 2023
Succession: Does it all Add Up?
23 mins; April 28, 2023
Auf Wiedersehen, Nuclear Power
24 mins; April 21, 2023
Crisis? What Banking Crisis?
25 mins; April 14, 2023
Nigel Lawson: In Memoriam
18 mins; April 07, 2023
The Nobel Prize in Economics for Poets
27 mins; March 31, 2023
Who Killed the UK Stock Market?
26 mins; March 24, 2023
SVB and The Shrinking of "The Bezzle"
25 mins; March 17, 2023
The New Absentee Landlords: How Fund Managers Gobbled Our Infrastructure
29 mins; March 10, 2023
The Pride of Icarus: Neil Woodford's Epic Rise and Fall
26 mins; March 03, 2023
Barclays: The Bank That Really Wanted to be Big
22 mins; February 03, 2023
Bernie Madoff, The Monster of Wall Street
26 mins; January 27, 2023
Long Time Short: Bernie Cornfeld's Sincere Desire to be Rich
11 mins; January 20, 2023
Long Time Short: The Cornering of Piggly Wiggly Stores
16 mins; January 16, 2023
Long Time Short: London's Big Bang
13 mins; January 13, 2023
Long Time Short: The Dutch Bond That Kept On Giving
