Luxury during wartime
Luxury goods are both an indulgence and a store of value. And those uses are completely different. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong talks with Katie Martin about his trip to the FT Business of Luxury ...
19 Touko 25min
What’s bothering bonds?
Yields on UK gilts are skyrocketing. But the UK is not the only country facing rising borrowing costs. Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong talk to new Unhedged contributor and former Ban...
14 Touko 24min
Can GameStop buy eBay?
GameStop, the video game retailer and iconic meme stock, has announced an attempt to take over the much larger eBay. Today on the show, Rob Armstrong and John Foley talk about how a smaller company ca...
12 Touko 21min
The Buy America trade
US companies are crushing it this year and it’s not just Big Tech. More than 80 per cent of the S&P 500 companies that have reported first-quarter earnings have beaten expectations. Katie Martin and R...
7 Touko 23min
Are AI stocks the new railroad bonds?
Transformative technologies create speculative frenzies. Robin Wigglesworth, host of the new FT podcast The Story of Money, joins Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong to talk about what financial history ca...
5 Touko 18min
Introducing: The Story of Money
The economist John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped that “there can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.” This show sets out to prove the op...
1 Touko 1min
The Fed holds steady
Yesterday, JayPowell made his final remarks as chair of the Federal Reserve. And then he announced his intention to remain on the board. Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong think about t...
30 Huhti 22min
Gloom and boom
The news is bad, but stocks seem happy. Today on the show, Katie Martin and Rob Armstrong unpack the market’s rally and look forward to Fed chair Jay Powell’s final comments. Also, they go short healt...
28 Huhti 23min
