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Are AI stocks the new railroad bonds?
Transformative technologies create speculative frenzies. Robin Wigglesworth, host of the new FT podcast The Story of Money, joins Katie Martin and Ro…
1 month ago
Introducing: The Story of Money
The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped that “there can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the wo…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Fed holds steady
Yesterday, JayPowell made his final remarks as chair of the Federal Reserve. And then he announced his intention to remain on the board. Today on the…
1 month, 1 week ago
Gloom and boom
The news is bad, but stocks seem happy. Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong unpack the market’s rally and look forward to Fed chair Jay…
1 month, 1 week ago
China Shock 2.0
In the past decade China has transformed itself into a high-value producer of sophisticated goods, threatening jobs in Europe and the rest of Asia. T…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Trading disruption
Today on the show, Rob Armstrong reports from the FT Commodities Global Summit 2026, where hundreds of traders gathered to share war stories about on…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Boing! Springtime for the markets
After a nervous couple of months, markets suddenly roared to life this week, with the S&P 500 reaching a new high. Struggling shoe company Allbirds l…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Space ecstasy
Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to go public this year in what may be the largest IPO of all time. But what is SpaceX, exactly? Today on the show, Katie Mar…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What has changed?
As President Donald Trump’s confusing messages on the Iran war seem to coalesce around a retreat, markets have risen. But are we really going back to…
2 months ago
Guns and butter and credit
Economists often compare today’s era to the 1970s, when oil prices were high and inflation was looming. But there is something to learn from the 1960…
2 months ago