New Money Review podcast

When will humans peak?

Record temperatures, droughts, war, COVID, bans on movement and meeting…it’s been a witches’ brew of events. Is nature telling us that humans...

Hydrocarbons, geopolitics and money

Whoever dominates the world’s energy markets rules global politics.

Coal fuelled the expansion of the British empire. Control over...

Securities finance underlies every business story

Take any story in the daily business news and there’s likely to be a securities finance angle to it, says Roy Zimmerhansl, my guest in the latest...

DeFi’s dangerous alphabet soup

In 2008, a few obscure three-letter financial products—MBS, ABS, CDOs and SIVs—set off the biggest financial crisis in history.

Now,...

Gold in the time of war

On 28 February the US, EU and UK froze most of the Russian central bank’s $630bn foreign currency reserves, responding to the country’s invasion...