Collection of slavery compensation
How shall companies confront a difficult past? In the most transparent way. So say Mike Anson (Bank of England) and Michael Bennett (Sheffield University) in conversation with Carmen Hofmann (eabh)....
11 Sep 202334min
Foreign Banks in China
With Ghassan Moazzin (University of Hong Kong), Carmen Hofmann (eabh) talks about the integration of China into the world economy in the late 19th century. It's the time towards the end of the Imperia...
5 Sep 202327min
Railroad Bailouts
Are real sector bailouts good public policy in crisis? In early 1932, President Hoover created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the depth of the Great Depression. The objective was to pr...
28 Jul 202320min
Bankhaus Metzler
Founded in 1674, Bankhaus Metzler is one of the oldest continuously family owned financial businesses in the world. This longstanding independence gave the bank and its customers many opportunities to...
6 Jun 202339min
Bank of America
The Great Depression remains the largest financial crisis in American history. Bank of America is one of the largest banks in the United States. At the time, the Bank did something remarkably well in ...
21 Apr 202338min
Exchange Rate History
Was there a world before inflation targeting? Alain Naef (Banque de France) and Carmen Hofmann (eabh) talk about currencies and exchange rates. More precisely about how pound sterling was managed on ...
3 Mar 202334min
Leverage
Broken promises? This episode is about the world's growing dependence on debt financing and current challenges to the world economy. The promise once made that deeper and larger financial markets wou...
25 Jan 202341min
The New York Stock Exchange
How to build an economy? Come and follow Hugo Bänziger (eabh) & Pete Asch (NYSE) to the creation of the modern US American economy and their views on the historical roots of the country's current dyn...
12 Des 202237min
