A Long Time In Finance
by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins
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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.
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- The Turning Point: The Necessary Collapse of Rolls-Royce (Part 2) · 37 minWhen Rolls-Royce went bust in February 1971, it was a national disaster. One commentator likened it to discovering "Westminster Abbey had been turned into a brothel". At the root…
- The Turning Point: The Necessary Collapse of Rolls-Royce (Part 1) · 43 minWhen Rolls-Royce went bust in February 1971, it was a national disaster. One commentator likened it to discovering "Westminster Abbey had been turned into a brothel". At the root…
- The Turning Point: How Arnault gobbled up LVMH · 41 minHow did Bernard Arnault go from running a construction company in Lille to being Europe's richest man? Neil and Jonathan look at the moment that changed everything for Arnault…
- The Art of the Squeal · 26 minWhen a debt crisis unfolds behind closed doors, who really has the upper hand? Taking in a range of characters – from Donald Trump to Philip Green, the Barclay brothers and the…
- The Turning Point: Kodak's Digital Asteroid · 41 minKodak, the photography company George Eastman created in the late 19th century, was built on restless R&D and bold innovation. So why did it flunk the shift from chemical to…
- The Turning Point: The Story of ASML · 34 minWelcome to a new series where we look at big businesses and what led to their big break or failure.. ASML is the biggest European company you’ve never heard of and the…
- The Derailment of Railtrack · 30 minIt was supposed to bring in the cash to revive Britain's creaking railway network. But then it all went wrong for the listed network owner. A series of tragic accidents…
- New Year Special: The Guinness Scandal · 30 minIt's often seen as the point where the City dumped its old gentlemanly mores ("My word is my bond") for a new "win at all costs" culture - one that the UK's new regulatory regime…
- How Britain Lost Its Shipbuilding Industry · 31 minEveryone knows that Britain once built almost all the world's ships, and now builds almost none. But what were the steps by which this mighty activity disintegrated? And no less…
- Britain's Energy Disaster · 31 minIn the 19th century, Britain transformed itself into the workshop of the world by harnessing the power of coal and steam. Now a new energy revolution - that of renewable power…
- Barbarians at the Gate: A Short History of Private Equity · 33 minFrom a few tiny funds in the 1970s, private equity has transformed the financial world and is now a $7 trillion industry, accounting for 30% of the US private sector economy. But…
- Britain's Melmotte? The Cautionary Tale of Robert Maxwell · 31 minThe publishing mogul Robert Maxwell lived a life shrouded in mystery that was ultimately capped by great disgrace. But was he an out and out villain, like Anthony Trollope's…
- The Green Shield Stamp Story · 31 minWith Britain's economy mired in 1970s misery, we thought we'd brighten things up a bit. So this week we present the most 1970s story ever: the history of GREEN SHIELD STAMPS!…
- The Art of the Shred · 34 minFred Goodwin led Royal Bank of Scotland to ruin and Britain to the brink of financial disaster. But who was the man they called Fred the Shred and how did he build RBS into…
- The Great QE Rip-off · 27 minQE or QT? The impact of these hangover expressions from another era is only now becoming apparent. Christopher Mahon of Columbia Threadneedle talks to Jonathan and Neil about how…
- The Spiders That Ate Ebbsfleet · 25 minThe government wants to build new towns on disused railway land to tackle the UK's housing crisis. A cracking idea, but will it be able to? Not just the planners but Natural…
- Talking War-onomics · 32 minNeil and Jonathan talk to Duncan Weldon about his new book Blood and Treasure about the interplay between war, society and economics from the violent larceny of the Vikings to…
- Making Plans for British Steel · 33 minBritain's steel industry has all but vanished, and the government has intervened to save the last blast furnaces. But how did the country that invented the steel industry reach…
- The Rearmament Pod: Lessons From Hard Times in the 1930s · 31 minGenerals and politicians calling for rearmament often talk about the UK facing a "1937 moment" of rising threats and a deteriorating international situation. But what actually…
- Iraq, Minerals and the Art of the Deal · 31 minIn the wake of Donald Trump's demand for a juicy minerals deal in Ukraine, Neil and Jonathan join author James Barr to look at the history of possibly the greatest minerals…
