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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 7h

The latest Story of Money episode tackles another chapter of my book A Fabulous Debt — the fascinating Liberty Loan programme of WWI. It transformed America, binding a polyglot country together and birthing its modern investment culture. Oh and it helped win the war. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeT...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 01/10/2026

Look at what i found in a lovely indie bookstore in Oxford. Look forward to finally reading @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social!

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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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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

“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

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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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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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Btw is the exact spot where Charlie Chaplin held a Liberty Loan drive on April 18, 1918, in front of 20,000 New Yorkers.

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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 · 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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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

He was not modest about this. He even called himself "Jakob the Rich" and on his tombstone he had engraved that he was second to none in the creation of extraordinary wealth. But fair enough. At his peak his fortune was the equivalent of 2% of European GDP.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 14/09/2026

We also discuss the Ten Commandments as a “don’t be a wanker charter”, how the central character of Ulysses is “Dan Draper without the sex” and why currency manipulators were consigned to the EIGHTH circle of hell, only one level above Lucifer himself.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 11/09/2026

My favourite bit? Probably the dollar bill that Buffett got paid as the interim chairman (he only actually served as chair for nine months and four days, but Salomon kindly rounded up and paid him for the full year).

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 11/09/2026

Fantastic retrospective on the day Warren Buffett saved Salomon Brothers — including some choice quotes from Michael Lewis, Eric Rosenfeld and the big man himself. www.ft.com/content/0368...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 09/09/2026

The Cleansing of the Temple is one of the most famous scenes in religious history. But it's also a crucial scene in financial history, given how Christianity has shaped our view of money. This is why we decided to tackle it in the latest TSOM episode. Hope you find it interesting.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 09/09/2026

Really looking forward to the “the chance that we kill all humans is above 10%” slide next to the $30 trillion TAM in the IPO filing.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 30/08/2026

The war on Iran is costing each US taxpayer about $200 just through the extra borrowing costs it has entailed. www.ft.com/content/6331...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 28/08/2026

AI bros: AI will cure cancer, bring peace to the world and make us an intergalactic species. AI texting:

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 26/08/2026

Terminal levels of AI brain rot. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/situ...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 23/08/2026

The guest will be @davidmcwecon.bsky.social and we’ll be talking about how historical literature portrays finance (spoiler alert, Dante was NOT a fan, placing them in the third ring of the circle of hell, alongside others that have “sinned against nature”).

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 21/08/2026

This is actually something I spent a fair bit of time looking into for my new book (please pre-order yada yada). Counterintuitively, AAA RMBS actually did pretty well, and subprime backed AAA actually suffered the lowest losses. bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/u...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 21/08/2026

Asset-backed commercial paper is baaaack (and helping fuel the stock market rally…) www.ft.com/content/a079...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 20/08/2026

Some WILD points from Acadian’s Owen Lamont on how volatile markets are these days.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 19/08/2026

🎶 my copies have arrived 🎶 Ada v happy about “her” book.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 18/08/2026

Only half though. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 14/08/2026

The near-infamous Treasury basis trade is big, but it’s just one of many highly leveraged strategies that hedge funds deploy in government debt markets, as an incredibly interesting taxonomy released by the Federal Reserve indicates.

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