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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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24:20

Man United and the Football South Sea Bubble

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2023/05/05

The famous football club's owners, the Glazers, haveput it up for sale for $7bn - or 10 times revenues. But instead of laughing out loud, severalbuyers are circling. With valuations at fever pitch. Neil (a Tranmere Rovers obsessive) and Jonathan talk to Kieran Maguire, football finance academic, about whether England's Premier League can sustain this sort of madness.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Kieran Maguire.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with

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23:12

Succession: Does it all Add Up?

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2023/04/28

There is a bit of a general spoiler alert this week as Neil and Jonathan talk to Louis Ashworth, FT Alphaville's resident Succession expert about the TV melodrama. Does the financial side of the plotline make any sense? Should the family sell Waystar Royco to GoJo? How big are the children's stakes and what are they actually worth? Is Kendall a billionaire or a messycentimillionaire? There's also an unscheduled reference to Wolverhampton and Dudley Breweries.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil

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24:40

Auf Wiedersehen, Nuclear Power

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2023/04/21

The country which first achieved nuclear fission has just become the third (behind Italy and Lithuania) to phase out its entire nuclear fleet. An odd time to do it, when Europe has just cut off Russian gas and the main alternative is to burn more coal. But that's the Green Party for you. Neil and Jonathan discuss the politics of Germany's contentiousphaseout with Mark Nelson, energy consultant and nuclear advocate, and its economic consequences.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Mark

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25:45

Crisis? What Banking Crisis?

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2023/04/14

After four banks collapsed in March, including the Swiss giant Credit Suisse, is it time to start worrying about a new banking crisis, just 14 years after the last one? Neil and Jonathan talk to financial historian Edward Chancellor about the challenges posed to the financial system by interest rates shooting up after a long period of historic lows, the risks for central banks, and why bankers' addiction to "dangerous carry" may come back to bite investors in the rear.Presented by Jonathan Ford and

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18:49

Nigel Lawson: In Memoriam

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2023/04/07

In his youth, he commanded a motor torpedo boat called HMS Gay Charger, and in later life became a Mousquetaire d'Armagnac. In between, Nigel Lawson was Neil's second favourite Chancellor of the Exchequer since the Second World War. We discuss the life and achievements of Margaret Thatcher's most intellectually confident Number 11 neighbour, their turbulent relationship, and the decisions that still mark the way we live now.In association with Briefcase.News Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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27:44

The Nobel Prize in Economics for Poets

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2023/03/31

Who knew that Samuel Taylor Coleridge, opium-nibbling author of Kubla Khan, also had views on the business cycle and foreshadowed Keynes' ideas by a century? Or that Walter Scott extolled the virtues of paper currency so powerfully that he saved the Scottish banknote, which bears his image in gratitude to this very day? Neil and Jonathan talk to John Ramsden author"The Poets Guide to Economics"about the economicinsights of some of our greatest poets from Defoe to (Ezra) Pound, and how they helped to

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26:27

Who Killed the UK Stock Market?

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2023/03/24

In recent years, companies have been deserting the UK stock market as if it were a sinking ship. But what brought on this sudden aversion? According to some, Britain's pension funds are the culprits, and Exhibit A the traditional defined benefit schemes that used to dominate the savings scene. Neil and Jonathan talk to William Wright, supremo of think tank New Financial, about how this shocking crime came about, name the victims, and ponder what can be done about it.Presented by Jonathan Ford and

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25:43

SVB and The Shrinking of "The Bezzle"

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2023/03/17

"At any given time there exists an inventory of undiscovered embezzlement in—or more precisely not in—the country’s business and banks.It varies in size with the business cycle. In good times, people are relaxed, trusting, and money is plentiful.In depression, all this is reversed. Money is watched with a narrow, suspicious eye. The man who handles it is assumed to be dishonest until he proves himself otherwise. The bezzle shrinks."Neil, Jonathan and Izabella Kaminska of The Blind Spot apply JK

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29:59

The New Absentee Landlords: How Fund Managers Gobbled...

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2023/03/10

How did fund managers end up controlling so much of the essential services on which we rely, from water to electricity and property? Who gave them the money? And does it matter that they do? Neil and Jonathan talk to author Brett Christophers, whose new bookOur Lives in Their Portfoliosargues that the giant funds that dominate the landscape are driven by terrible incentives - and that's why they are running ourinfrastructure into the ground.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Brett

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26:09

The Pride of Icarus: Neil Woodford's Epic Rise and Fall

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2023/03/03

Neil Woodford was the fund manager who seemed to have it all. Hailed as the genius who "made Middle England rich", he ran one of the UK's best performing investment funds for decades. And then in a few hubristic years, after sticking his own name above the door, he raised an insane amount of cash, made some risky bets and lost the lot. Neil and Jonathan talk to David Ricketts, author of a book on Woodford, abouthis fall, the reasons for it, and what we've learned.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil

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22:57

Barclays: The Bank That Really Wanted to be Big

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2023/02/03

"What is all this about being big?" asked the actor Anthony Hopkins in a famous (if toe-curling) ad from 2000 for Barclays Bank. "You know, seeing the big picture, having the big idea, clinching the big deal; no one wants to clinch the little deal." For decades the British bank followed this restless urge, always trying to get bigger, to keep up with the biggest banks in the world. Neil and Jonathan talk to author and former banker Philip Augar about where it came from, how it led a stuffy old

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26:43

Bernie Madoff, The Monster of Wall Street

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2023/01/27

Charles Ponzi was the first, FTX perhaps the latest, but few "rob Peter to pay Paul" schemes will ever match the sheer scale and staying power of BernieMadoff's $64bn heist. As a new documentary airs about the "Monster of Wall St", Neil and Jonathan talk to author and fraud connoisseur Dan Davies about the world's most destructive Ponzi scheme.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Dan Davies.Executive produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.Produced by Ewan Cameron.In association

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11:38

Long Time Short: Bernie Cornfeld's Sincere Desire to...

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2023/01/20

In this final episode of our six part series, Neil tells the story of the rise and fall of Bernie Cornfeld, mutual fund peddlar extraordinaire and founder of Investors Overseas Services, whose pitch to the aspiring affluent was "Do you sincerely want to be rich?"(Spoiler alert: they didn't end up getting rich.)Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In partnership with Briefcase.News Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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16:08

Long Time Short: The Cornering of Piggly Wiggly Stores

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2023/01/16

In the fifth of our historical series, Jonathan tells the story of Clarence Saunders - grocer extraordinaire, entrepreneur and valiant battler against the soulless money-makers of Wall Street - and how he attempted the last great corner on the New York Stock Exchange.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with Briefcase.News Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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13:33

Long Time Short: London's Big Bang

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2023/01/13

In the fourth of our series of historical shorts, Neil explains how a competition case before the Restrictive Practices Court in the early 1980s led to the reforms that turned the London Stock Exchange from theHogwartian Victorian club he remembers from his own time "on the floor" in the Swinging Sixties to the polyglot digital marketplace we know and love today.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.Made in association with Briefcase.News Hosted on

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13:18

Long Time Short: The Dutch Bond That Kept On Giving

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2023/01/11

On May 15 1648, the same day Holland signed the Treaty of Munster ending its 80 year war with Spain, a Dutch canal board issued a bond of 1,000 Carolus guilders to a Mr Niclaes de Meijer of Utrecht promising to pay him 5 per interest in perpetuity.In the latest of our Long Time Shorts, Jonathan explains how that promise is still being kept 374 years later, what Mr de Meijer's bond might be worth today, and why the Dutch are so good (relatively speaking) at meeting their financialobligations. Lang

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12:44

Long Time Short: Exchange Controls

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2023/01/09

In the second of our six-part series of historical shorts, Neil takes us back to the 1970s; a benighted time when you could only take £50 per head out of the country on your foreign holidays.Weexplain the regime thatunderpinned this miserablesystem, how it criminalised the otherwise law-abiding middle classes, and why its much feared (by HM Treasury) abolition in 1979 was the dog that didn't bark.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.Made in

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15:15

Long Time Short: The Golden Inheritance of Max-Hervé...

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2023/01/06

Introducing a new six part series - "Long Time Shorts", in which we serve up quick hits of financialhistory every Friday, Monday and Wednesday for the next two weeks. In this first episode, Neil and Jonathan look at the story of French thirty-something Max-Hervé George, whose father bought him a magical insurance policy; how this gave him the gift of 20-20 hindsight, and the agony it caused the insurance company that sold it.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.Produced and edited by Nick

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42:38

A Nation Deep In Debt: Part Two

A Long Time In Finance ·

2022/12/16

“For too long in this country, we have indulged in a fight over redistribution. Now, we need to focus on growth, not just how we tax and spend," said Kawsi Kwarteng on September 23. Unfortunately for the chancellor, the bond markets didn't agree with him; yields ballooned, and a few days later he was out, followed swiftly by his boss Liz Truss.So where does that leave theUK'sstressedpublic finances?In the second of our two part series, Neil and Jonathan talk to Britain's top bond vigilante, Jim

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34:21

A Nation Deep In Debt: Part One

A Long Time In Finance ·

2022/12/09

"Let us be, say I, a free Nation deep in Debt.. rather than a Nation of Slaves owing nothing.” So wrote a pamphleteer in 1720 about the remorseless rise of Britain's National Debt.At a time of mounting concern about the public finances, we launch a two part series on the National Debt, starting with its ups and downs over two centuries with historian James Macdonald.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With James Macdonald.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Hosted on Acast. See

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