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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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30:31

The Green Shield Stamp Story

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2025/10/10

With Britain's economy mired in 1970s misery, we thought we'd brighten things up a bit. So this week we presentthe most 1970s story ever: the history of GREEN SHIELD STAMPS!Oldies will know, but for younger listeners, you collected them in books, kids, and exchanged them for glass tumblers and soda syphons. Groovy huh? Neil and Jonathan talk to Prof Leigh Sparks about how they worked and changed British retailfor ever.The show is made in partnership with The Library of Mistakes who are offering a

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34:08

The Art of the Shred: ALTIF Live!

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2025/09/26

Fred 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 (briefly) the world's largest bank? And how was he allowed to make such a complete horlicks of it? In our first live show at the Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh, Neil and Jonathan discuss these issues with Ian Fraser, author of Shredded, the seminal history of the fall of RBS. The show is made in partnership with The Library of

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26:46

The Great QE Rip-off

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2025/09/12

QE 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 Bank of England bought government stocks and sold them back at a loss. One example:paying £101 (QE) and later selling it for £28 (QT). The cost of this insane behaviour to the taxpayer? Probably over £115 billion (that's billion).Secure your tickets to our live event in Edinburgh – on the life and times of Fred 'the

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24:48

The Spiders That Ate Ebbsfleet

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2025/08/29

The 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? Notjust the planners but Natural England lie in wait. Neil and Jonathan are joined by Michael Dnes to investigate the murky tale of a new town on disused railway land in Kent that was eaten by a colony of jumping spiders. Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Michael Dnes.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Hosted on Acast. See

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32:14

Talking War-onomics

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2025/06/13

Neil 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 the GDP-chomping total wars of the 20th century.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Duncan Weldon.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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33:29

Making Plans for British Steel

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2025/05/02

Britain'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 this pass and does it even matter? We talk to historian Ewan Gibbs about steel, the state, and the importance of ownership and production in an uncertain world.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Ewan Gibbs.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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30:46

The Rearmament Pod: Lessons From Hard Times in the 1930s

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2025/04/18

Generals and politicians calling forrearmament often talk about the UK facing a "1937 moment" of rising threats and a deterioratinginternational situation. But what actually happened in the late 1930s, and how was an indebted and cash-strapped Britain ableto mobilise its industry and spend so much more on armaments? Are there similarities to today and what can we learn? We talk to historian Dan Todman about the economic and military parallels.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Daniel

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30:51

Iraq, Minerals and the Art of the Deal

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2025/03/14

In the wake of Donald Trump's demand for a juicy minerals deal in Ukraine, Neil and Jonathan join authorJames Barr to look at the history of possibly the greatest minerals carve-up of all time - in the post First World War Middle East - and ask the key question: "How did that all work out?"Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With James Barr.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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26:55

1976: The Year Britain Went Bust

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2025/01/31

In 1976, the Labour government went "cap in hand" to the IMF for a loan to tide it through deteriorating economic conditions. The price was large cuts in public spending. Neil and Jonathan talk to economist and author Duncan Weldon about the "bailout", what caused it, the changes it brought, and whether there are any parallels to the predicament faced by Rachel Reeves.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Duncan Weldon.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Hosted on Acast. See

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26:02

Why Germans Don't Do it Better

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2025/01/10

Until recently, Germany seemed to be going through a secondwirtschaftswunder, as the country's mighty industry pumped outcapital exports to China,powered by cheapRussian gas. Then everything blew up in the 2020s. Neil and Jonathan talk to Wolfgang Munchau about the wishful thinking, political misjudgments, and structural failings that led Europe's largest economyinto the mire.Produced by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Wolfgang Munchau.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot. Hosted on

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25:09

The Bretton Woods System

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2024/12/06

In thesummer of 1944, as Allied armies fought through Normandy, 44 nations gathered at a run-down hotel in New Hampshire to discuss the economic future of the world.What followed was the onlyever formal attempt to reorder the international monetary system; one that seemed for a time successful until it collapsed unmourned in 1971.Together with the author Ed Conway, we look at the summit itself, the giant figures who dominated it (John Maynard Keynes and Harry Dexter White), what it concluded and

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23:12

The John Stonehouse Affair

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2024/11/22

On 21 November 1974, an obscure backbench MP, John Stonehouse, went for a swim off Miami Beach and disappeared. So began an extraordinary tale of banking fraud, money laundering, spying and identity theft,which unravelled over the following month, ending in Stonehouse's exposure and arrest and making him one of the most famous MPs in the world. Together with the author Philip Augar, we look at Stonehouse's politicallife and the extraordinary financial dealings that led to his disappearance.Presented

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27:11

The Mystery of Dame Linda Dobbs

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2024/10/11

Employees of a High Street bank rip off its customers for years. The bank refuses to admit that anything illegal happened. Yet when the fraud is finally exposed, it not only gets to decide what compensation to pay; it gets to investigate its own wrongdoing.Sound strange? We talk to the Ian Fraser about Lloyds Bank and the HBOS Reading Affair, its parallels with the Post Office scandal and the world's longest in-house investigation, under retired Judge Dame Linda Dobbs.Presented by Jonathan Ford and

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26:53

Living in a Material World

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2024/09/27

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. These materials built the world we live in, and they will transform our future. Neil and Jonathan talk to writer and broadcaster Ed Conway about raw materials that drive our economies, who controls them, and how that affects Britain's place in the worldPresented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Ed Conway.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.Additional production by Ewan Cameron. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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27:33

Ashes to Ashes: The Decline And Fall of Coal-Fired...

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2024/09/06

Coal once powered the Industrial Revolution and made Britain the richest country on earth. Nowwith the closure of the country's last coal-fired power station, it will cease to play any meaningful part in the economic life of the nation.Aside from welcoming a cleaner, greener future, what are we to make of this momentous departure? Together with Ewan Gibbs from Glasgow University, Neil and Jonathan look at the epic decline and fall of King Coal.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Ewan

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27:18

Overpaid and Unaccountable

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2024/07/26

That's how the public increasingly sees today's managerial elite. Bosses enjoy vast rewards without seeming to be accountable for their decisions- at least the ones that go wrong. The economist (and oldfriend of Altif) Dan Davies has an answer: they've created what he calls an "unaccountability sink" which is delivering terrible business outcomes. Neil and Jonathan investigate.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Dan Davies.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with

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28:03

An Audience With The Bond Market's Wyatt Earp

A Long Time In Finance ·

2024/07/19

One of Britain's best known bond fund managers, and also founder of the "Bond Vigilante" blog, Jim Leaviss is leaving the City after 32 years totrain as an art historian. Neil and Jonathan caught up with him to look back on his City career, the huge bull market in bonds of recent decades, and the threats that lie in store from international instability, political turmoil and deteriorating public finances across the Western world.Presented by Neil Collins and Jonathan Ford.With Jim Leaviss.Produced

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34:27

Libor and the Law

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2024/07/06

When banks were found to have manipulated the Libor rate during the financial crisis, they paid a whopping $8bn in fines but only a few junior traders went to prison. In a joint episode with Law & Disorder podcast, we look at the recently appealed cases of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palumbo, and ask whether justice has been served.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Nicholas Mostyn and Helena Kennedy.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with Briefcase.News Hosted on

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27:42

The Great Online Money Laundry

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2024/06/14

One of the more striking crime statistics is that burglary is down 90% in England and Wales since the1990s. That doesn't reflect more upright behaviour. Nope, it's just that villains are increasingly moving their operations online. We talk to author Geoff White about how Silicon Valley is helping the bad guys go digital by making it easier for them not only to con people and rob, but also to launder their digital winnings onlinePresented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Geoff White.Produced

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25:53

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

A Long Time In Finance ·

2024/06/07

How did housing in Britain go from somewhere to live to being everyone's favourite financial asset? In the second of our two part series, we look at housingpolicy since 1970; and ask whether therehaseverbeen acoherent approach. Also is there a naturallevel of home ownership and should we be encouraging everyone to buy? With Cambridge University housing expertPeter Williams.Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins.With Peter Williams.Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.In association with

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