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Financial Times · 342 episodes with transcripts

FT columnist Gillian Tett and FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth dig into the ideas, personalities and institutions that have shaped the history of finance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The French Revolution's disastrous money experiment - Part 2

October 21, 2026

Robin Wigglesworth (0:00)

Today, on the story of money, how the French Revolutions fight for liberty, also, was they fight over money. So the reign of terror is now kicking off.

Rebecca Spang (0:10)

They do not want to keep producing chaos. They want the chaos to end. But since they have chaos, they say, oh well, how about if we try this?

Robin Wigglesworth (0:19)

So they do start printing tons and tons of assignat-

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