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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 43m
This is possibly the TSOM episode I've been looking forward to the most. It's a LIVE recording on the first chapter of my new book A Fabulous Debt. It features war, murder, hostage negotiations, the plague, and the birth of the very first bond in 12th century Venice. youtu.be/Gmc4_2SFxbY
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The birth of the bond market | The Story of Money | The Story of Money
YouTube video by The Story of Money Podcast | Financial Times
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 29/09/2026
🎇 Happy US publication day to A FABULOUS DEBT! 🎇 The working title of the book was The Greatest Show on Earth: An Affectionate Biography of the Bond Market, which probably sums up my feelings about the subject.
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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 29/09/2026
@robinwigglesworth.ft.com with his baby
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 29/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/7961...
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Rolex was for crypto, Ferrari is for AI
Cars: the new coins
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 28/09/2026
I promise I’ll tone down the shameless salesmanship soon (ish), but I was extremely chuffed to be invited talk with @kairyssdal.bsky.social re bonds and my new book. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...
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Bonds are like the “hidden wiring connecting the global economy”
“The bond market is often seen as the boring sibling to the stock market,” said Robin Wigglesworth. “I think that's completely wrong. It is the bedrock to the entire financial system.”
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 28/09/2026
Fun fact, investors lost more money on the Austrian century bond than on the Argentine century bond, despite the latter going into default just three years after being issued. www.ft.com/content/1893...
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Argentina vs Austria, the smackdown of the century (bonds)
The dangers of duration
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 25/09/2026
ftav.substack.com/p/ponzi-like...
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‘Ponzi-like schemes’
Also: space rockets, Chinese cars, tax avoidance, reply-all disaster strategies, and betting against the house
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 28/09/2026
First newspaper review of A Fabulous Debt! Can’t speak for the index (imo most indices are pretty rubbish these days) but pretty chuffed about “pace of a Hollywood thriller”. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 27/09/2026
Come to gawp at my original FT byline pic, stay for the great questions and hopefully passable answers on government debt, the AI credit splurge, and how worried we should be by all this. open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p...
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A Fabulous Debt
Episode 3049: Robin Wigglesworth on How Bonds Built the Modern World
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Macronin @macronin1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Go out and buy it folks. @robinwigglesworth.ft.com is exposed to the insane economics and incentives of the book market. I have a few published friends and the bullshit hoops they have to hop through are astounding.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 27/09/2026
“Is this a fucking dagger which I see before me?”
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 26/09/2026
They say no one rings a bell at the market peak but Ackman is doing his bit.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 26/09/2026
Fixed it for you @mancity.com
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 26/09/2026
I know I’ve hardly been shy about talking about my new book, but wanted to share some more nice things that people have said about it.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 25/09/2026
Gotta love a New York mayor shitposting about English football and certain people just not being able to cope.
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Shadow Hedgie 🌻 @shadow.hedgie.social · 24/09/2026
lfg
Cover of "A Fabulous Debt" by Robin Wigglesworth
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Charlotte Rommerskirchen @crommers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
'Bonds are maths, stocks are stories.' Nope! @robinwigglesworth.ft.com
Photo of the book cover of Robin Wigglesworth's A Fabulous Debt (2026).Photo of index, mostly covering letter C
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Sam Ro @tker.co · 24/09/2026
Bonds don't get enough credit for how they helped advance the world. Like many of history's great inventions, bonds emerged from the need to solve big problems. But their earliest forms were crude, and their development has been a fascinating process involving many characters and many challenges...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Some people have actually already been getting their books, but happy UK publication day to me! 🥳 The US book isn’t published until next week, so let’s call this a small win for Europe over America.
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Yolonomics @yolonomics.life · 24/09/2026
Belgium has been reached!
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 24/09/2026
Bond gods 🤜🤛 my book launch. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/750210...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 23/09/2026
Gosh, the bond market seems interesting these days. I wonder if there is a KILLER book that tells the fascinating story of its 900-year history and helps me understand what's going on and why it maters?
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 23/09/2026
Did you know that the New York Stock Exchange was actually a bond market to begin with? Just imagine, it used to be cool. Anyway, that story (and maaany more) is in my new book A Fabulous Debt, a history of the bond market, which is coming out any day now.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 23/09/2026
Show me a prettier view. I’ll wait.
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 22/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/193a...
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Pick a stock, just not any stock
Fewer ziggers, more zaggers
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🔊New on The Big View🎧: @robinwigglesworth.ft.com dropped by the @breakingviews.reuters.com studio to talk about his love of the bond market and his new book. We also talked about what's going on with US Treasuries, the dangers in the AI boom, and much else besides. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldLc...
Robin Wigglesworth on The Big View
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 18/09/2026
🥔 ftav.substack.com/p/frites-don...
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Frites don’t fail me now
Also: hyperscalers, circular financing, AI slop, pervert glasses and justifiable murder
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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026
A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...
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Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks
FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 21/09/2026
(they move inversely 🫡)
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 19/09/2026
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Startup Nscale’s CEO pay nearly matched the FTSE 100 record, because of course it did
Power? Low. Pay? Very high
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 20/09/2026
Classic Louis.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19/09/2026
A Fabulous Debt is out soon, but for the champs that preorder I have a tiny little extra gift chapter. Details below.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19/09/2026
Moro å være i DN denne helgen (og ikke fordi jeg har skrevet noe for avisen, slik jeg alltid drømte om da jeg var yngre). www.dn.no/magasinet/po...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And I talked to @robinwigglesworth.ft.com about bond markets, and the growing risks from rising debt and political failure. (His new book on the history of bonds is excellent) samf.substack.com/p/how-much-d...
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How much debt is too much?
It’s looming global economic risks week at Comment is Freed.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19/09/2026
Oh wow looks like some Brits are getting their preorders now already!
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 17/09/2026
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Bank of England follows FTAV advice
Although maybe correlation ≠ causation
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026
‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ www.ft.com/content/7a28...
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Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction
ALT: Antonio Banderas' Satisfied Reaction
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026
*sad trombone sound*
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026
How America’s extraordinary attitude to investing — where it is about as much as an expression of personal identity as a means of making money — can be traced back to the titanic Liberty Loan programme of WW1. time.com/article/2026...
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America’s Investing Identity Crisis
Americans "have embraced speculation both as a way to get rich and as a reflection of their own beliefs," writes Robin Wigglesworth.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/09/2026
Damn. @tobyn.bsky.social has produced the most detailed map of Big AI’s incestuous relationships I’ve seen so far. And it’s interactive! www.ft.com/content/8475...
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17/09/2026
I tilfelle det er noen som faktisk vil høre meg prøve å snakke om obligasjonslånets fødsel på norsk, så er første del av to episoder om det her: open.spotify.com/episode/6pEC...
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Venezia – byen som steg opp av lagunen
Historier Som Endret Verden · Episode
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 17/09/2026
"the plan is to sell gold bars and coins to retail investors and plough the proceeds into buying more bitcoin" the silly singularity is upon us www.ft.com/content/7727...
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The Extended Farageverse is coming together
Stacking sats 🤜 🤛 selling gold
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 17/09/2026
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Either Meta Glasses are selling extremely well or this Citi survey might have some issues
Alternate virtual realities
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17/09/2026
The FT Alphaville internship programme — elsewhere sometimes referred to as Lex — is hiring job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io
Lex Columnist
New York
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New post: A global bond market sell-off is causing serious problems for govts + there is growing nervousness about debt levels. I talked to the brilliant @robinwigglesworth.ft.com to ask how worried we should be and what can be done about it. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/how-much-d...
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How much debt is too much?
It’s looming global economic risks week at Comment is Freed.
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 17/09/2026
Meet the Fuggers! Or more specifically, Jakob Fugger, possibly the wealthiest man who has ever lived, and the master behind several popes and emperors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdV...
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The man who bankrolled an empire and a pope - Jakob Fugger | The Story of Money
YouTube video by The Story of Money Podcast | Financial Times
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 16/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/1b95...
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This is good for AI!!!! Aaargh!!!!
A brief survey of sell-side scribbling at the end of the world
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 16/09/2026
"Anthropic’s forthcoming filing raises a novel question. How do you draft risk factor language to address the possibility that your product destroys human civilisation? This isn’t a rhetorical question." @alphaville.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3a86cf53-1...
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Anthropic’s mother of all risk factors
What to say in your S-1 when your product has a >10% possibility of causing the extinction of humankind
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 16/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/3401...
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The BoE’s three balance sheet problem
Issues with the Issue Department
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FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 15/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/fa93...
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BPRE’s extremely large, very huge, getting-bigger NAV discount
Private marks v public markets
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