Gillian Tett
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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…
Why Richard Nixon torpedoed the global monetary system
All the gold in Fort Knox wasn’t enough to save the US…
The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor
She set up England’s first “penny bank”, an early exercise in financial…
The deal that put the dollar at the centre of the world
The Bretton Woods agreement: a tale of boozing, womanising, espionage and a heart…
Why money is the biggest shared hallucination in human history
What human-sized stones on the island of Yap reveal about the true nature of…