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A Long Time In Finance

Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins

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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26:49

From The Corset to Help To Buy: A British Housing...

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2024/05/31

How did housing in Britain go from somewhere to live to everyone's favourite financial asset? In the first of a two part series, we look at the mortgage market since 1970; and ask whether the high prices and low supply we endure today are a financial phenomenon. With former building societies supremo Mark Boleat.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Mark Boleat.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with Briefcase.News Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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27:31

The Amazon Octopus

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2024/05/17

When Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, it was an online bookshop. Now its tentacles are everywhere: it's a marketplace for third party goods from around the world, a huge cloud computing business and America's largest parcel delivery group. But is this a good thing or a bad one? We talk to Dana Mattioli of the Wall Street Journal about whether Amazon is the consumer''s friend or a monopolist to rank with Rockefeller's Standard Oil.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Dana

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23:42

Michael Jensen: High Priest of Greed

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2024/04/12

The economist Michael Jensen, who died this month,did as much as any single thinker to shape modern financial capitalism. To his detractors, he was the High Priest of Greed who justified stratosphericCEO pay and predatory private equity. His admirers believe he revived Anglo Saxon capitalism. We discuss his ideas and legacy with the independent researcher and private equity expert Peter Morris.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Peter Morris.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for

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24:16

Fallen Angels: Thames Water Circles the Plughole

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2024/04/05

A natural monopoly delivering an essential service, Thames Water was privatised in 1989 with no debt. Now it's on its knees, crushed by more than £15bn of borrowings. Neil and Jonathan talk to Feargal Sharkey about what thissays about Mrs Thatcher's most controversial privatisation,whether incentive regulation works, and whether we shouldjust scrap the whole private structure and start again.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Feargal Sharkey.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for

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23:42

Fallen Angels: GEC/Marconi - From Bellwether to...

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2024/03/29

GEC was a British manufacturingtitan; a cash-rich producer of everything from washing machines to railway trains. Then in a few years, it rebranded and restructured, shedding most of the old industrial bits to focus on telecoms. The result? By 2005, shiny new Marconi was no more. In the second of our Fallen Angel series, we talk to industrial historian Nick Comfort about one of the most abrupt collapses in UK corporate history and its heavy industrial costPresented by Jonathan Ford and Neil

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23:55

Fallen Angels: The Fall of the House of ICI

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2024/03/22

For decades ICI was Britain's largest manufacturing company - a giant fixed point around which the rest of industry orbited. Then, in little more than a decade, it split itself up, sold many of its traditional businesses, and ran up big debts buying fancy but not very profitable fragrance companies. In 2006, the end came when it sold itself to a Dutch company and disappeared. We talk to writer and industrial commentator Nick Comfort about the fall of ICI and what it says about the way the UK economy

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26:40

The Internet, AI, And the Madness of Crowds

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2024/03/08

Remember Pets.com? Or Ask Jeeves? The dot com bubble of 25 years ago might have been a seismic event in markets. But was it just a collective moment of madness, or a deeper transformational moment? Or both? As AI stocks shoot towards the stratosphere, we talk to internet historian Brian McCullough, host of the Techmeme Ride Home podcast,about what we can learn from the last great tech bubble.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Brian McCullough.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for

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24:12

The Economic Consequences of Roger Bootle

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2024/03/01

One of Britain's better-known economic forecasters, RogerBootle, set up his consultancy Capital Economics 25 years ago. He made his name predicting the "death of inflation" on which he wrote an influentialbook in the 1990s. We discuss the importance of economic history, favourite writers, monetarism, bright spots in the world economy, and Britain's many problems with growth.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Philip Augar.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with

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23:15

BP, Black Monday and Nigel Lawson's Big Bet

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2024/02/23

In the second of our series on Privatisation and Popular Capitalism, we look at the biggest and riskiest privatisation of all - the 1987 sale of the UK's 31% stake in BP.How theChancellor Nigel Lawson gambled that the markets were good for a quick£7bn. Prepare for the world's shortest pricing meeting, diplomatic rows with Kuwaitis and lots of long faced underwriters. And our guest Philip Augar delivers the verdict: was it a disaster narrowly averted or a triumph for the new City of London?Presented

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25:59

Tell Sid: Popular Capitalism and the Thatcher Revolution

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2024/02/16

Along with the sale of council houses, privatisation was a signature theme of Mrs Thatcher's government. Its aim was not just more efficient businesses, but a "share owning democracy" that would purge Britain of the "corrosive effect of socialism". With its "Tell Sid" campaign, British Gas was the high water mark of privatisation. Neil and Jonathan talk to author Philip Augar about "stagging", Cedric the Pig and how privatisation changed the City.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With

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30:16

The Price Is Wrong: Why Free Markets And Climate...

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2024/02/09

What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to green energy is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable. This is the conundrum at the heart of economist Brett Christophers' provocative new book. Neil and Jonathan joined him to discuss why lower wind and solar costs may not equal a green bonanza.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Brett Christophers.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton

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22:56

Zen And The Art of Motor Car Maintenance

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2024/02/02

Unipart, once an unloved division of British Leyland, has grown steadily since its buyout 37 years ago, eschewing the stock market and building a "Mittelstand" like relationship with employees, customers and suppliers. Neil and Jonathan talk to John Neill, its long standing boss, about car parts, purpose versus City short-termism and why more companies don't embrace the"Unipart Way".Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With John Neill.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In

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25:54

The Weird World of The Barclay Twins

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2024/01/26

To some it might seem like the plot of a Jeffrey Archer novel: identical twins born to hardship who graft their way up together and ultimately get to own the Ritz Hotel, the Daily Telegraph and a socking great castle in the Channel Islands. But the story of Frederick and David Barclay is much stranger than that. With the Barclays back in the news as they attempt to recover control of theTelegraph, Neil and Jonathan talk to journalist Jane Martinson about the invisible rise of the twins, their

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26:28

The Ups and Downs of Bill Gross, Bond King

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2024/01/19

Bill Gross was the "Master of the Universe" who got the world's attention when he declared in 2010 that UK government debt was sitting "on a bed of nitroglycerine". The man who built the modern bond markets, Gross seemed to have it all. But then he blew up his career just a few short years later with some very strange behaviour. We talk to Mary Childs, journalist and author of a book on Gross, about the strange life and times of a bond market Icarus and his deadcat Bob.Presented by Jonathan Ford and

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25:59

How to Get Big Things Done

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2024/01/12

What links the iconic Sydney Opera House, Monsters Inc and the mess that is HS2? Well, they involve all giant projects and most conform to the "iron law" that schemes costing $1bn or more alwaysend up over time and budget. According to the data, a piddling 0.5% get delivered on time, for the right price, and produce the forecast benefits. So with the world facing a mountain of infrastructure projects to deal with everything from the climate crisis toclapped out transport systems, we talk to

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28:50

An Atomic Awakening? Or Another Big Zzzzz?

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2023/12/22

At the recent COP conference, the UK, along with 21 othercountries, promised to triple nuclearcapacity by 2050. But what does that mean, and how can these plants be built withoutthedelays and cost overruns that marked nuclear projects in the 1970s and 1980s - the last time Britain had a nuclearprogramme? Neil and Jonathan talk to Tim Stone, head of the UK's Nuclear Industry Association and a former adviser to five energy secretaries, about howto get nuclear done.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil

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26:57

The Strange Non Death of Crypto

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2023/12/15

Crypto's demise seems to havebeen exaggerated, a bit like Mark Twain's. After the collapse of FTX, multiple coin failures andthearrest of various coinigarchs at airports, Neil andJonathantalk to bitcoin expert Matthew Pines about the digital, bankless currencies strange ability to shrug off these disasters and what the future may hodl.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Matthew Pines.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with Briefcase.News Hosted on Acast. See

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28:53

Legal Bullying and the War on Truth

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2023/12/08

It's got a long history going back to Robert Maxwell and Sir James Goldsmith's long-running battleto bankrupt Private Eye, butin recentyearsso-called "lawfare" has become a veritableindustry. We talk to David Hooper, solicitor and author of Buying Silence about the ways in which companies have used libel and privacy laws to squash their critics, the numerous abuses, and how these might be curbed.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With David Hooper.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for

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29:55

The Problem of The Twelve

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2023/12/01

No, it's not a novel by GK Chesterton; it's the takeover of the world's investmentmarkets by a sinister posse of giant passive fund managers and private equity firms. These now possess the sort of political and economic power that would have made John Rockefeller green with envy. We talk to John Coates, professor at Harvard Law School and author of a new book on "The Twelve", about Blackstone, BlackRock and the rest; where the threat lies and how we should manage it.Presented by Jonathan Ford and

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33:59

Carbon Offsets: Dude, Where's My Trees?

A Long Time In Finance ·

2023/11/03

Carbon offsets seemed a neat idea: pay poor people in the Global South not to cut down trees, and then use that "avoided" carbon to sell credits to polluters in developed countries. Bish bosh, your Delta Airlines flight or VW SUV is carbon neutral. What could possibly go wrong?Neil and Jonathan pick through the rubble of the South Pole scandal with environmentalconsultant Andrew Garraway to find exactly what did.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Andrew Garraway.Produced and edited by

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