Behind the Money Podcast
1) The Economics Show: What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler
Economists like to model people as rational creatures who make self-interested decisions. But humans don’t act that way. Why do investors, politicians and ordinary people act against their best intere...Show More
2) The quiet success of Fidelity Investments
Despite its relatively low profile, Fidelity Investments is a sprawling beast when it comes to financial services. Last year, the firm’s revenues surpassed the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock...Show More
3) Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 2: Is it ‘British’ to pay whistleblowers?
In the UK, whistleblowers are encouraged to report wrongdoing, but often at cost to their livelihoods and careers. One solution would be to pay corporate whistleblowers for coming forward. However, ma...Show More
4) Business Book of the Year: Author Stephen Witt on Nvidia’s rise
In this special episode of Behind the Money, the FT’s senior business writer Andrew Hill interviews author Stephen Witt about his book The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most ...Show More
5) Whistleblowing in the UK, Ep. 1: The cost of speaking up
For years, corporate whistleblowers in the UK have found themselves in an unenviable predicament. They’re encouraged to report wrongdoing, but at the same time they often feel like they’ve risked ever...Show More
6) Coming soon: The cost of corporate whistleblowing in the UK
For years, corporate whistleblowers in the UK have found themselves in an unenviable predicament. They’re encouraged to report wrongdoing, but at the same time they often feel like they’ve risked thei...Show More
7) Business History: The Secret of Southwest’s Success
This week we’re sharing an episode from Business History, a podcast from Pushkin Industries. Former Planet Money hosts Jacob Goldstein and Robert Smith explore what the businesses of the past can teac...Show More
8) KKR, Bain and private equity’s push into Japan
When international private equity groups first entered Japan at the turn of the 20th century, newspapers criticised them as vulture funds and politicians steered clear of public contact. Today, it’s a...Show More
9) Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death
Investors are spending billions of dollars on novel ways to extend human life through inventive treatments, therapies, and even manipulating our genes. And increasingly, it seems as though anti-ageing...Show More
10) What’s the deal with OpenAI's deals?
OpenAI is entering a new era. It's restructured to add a for-profit arm to its business and has signed more than a trillion dollars’ worth of deals to secure chips and build out data centres. But thos...Show More