Gillian Tett
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The trader who made $100mn from the 1929 crash — only to lose it all
Jesse Livermore turned speculation into legend. But his life ended in tragedy.
The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister
Robert Walpole rescued Britain’s economy – and pulled himself up with…
South Sea Bubble: the shoemaker’s son who sparked Britain’s first financial crisis
The rise and fall of the South Sea…
The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance
It was a conservative Catholic from the Nixon administration who launched the private equity…
The US dollar’s ‘immigrant’ origins
The story of the hapless count and the Bohemian silver mine that created the dollar.
‘We’re still paying the price’: Gillian Tett and Jonathan Freedland on Brexit’s lasting legacy
Bianna Golodryga speaks with The Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland and Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett about Brexit’s legacy ten years after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union.
How much is a trillion?
June 22nd, 2026 9am: What we know about the high level negotiations between the U. S. and Iran as the fallout grows for Trump on Capitol Hill.
Trump v Senate GOP
June 18th, 2026; 9am: The Supreme Court could announce decisions on landmark cases from this term.
The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war
1997 was the country’s year of financial…
When Nixon put America first and took the dollar off gold
US to the world: “It’s our dollar, but it’s your…