Gillian Tett

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1,226 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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The Story of Money · The ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ who exposed bankers’ lies · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

Um do you think that the financial world has learnt lessons from the splitzer scandal?

And that point's very interesting because of course we're in another era right now, a bit like at the turn of the century, where, you know, Republicans are back in power and they have been ripping up many of the rules that were keeping American investors safe.

And in fact, um what's even more striking is that under

the second Trump term, we've actually seen the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

You know, basically ripped to shreds.

We've seen all kinds of other rules taken apart.

Do you think we need another spit so today?

Absolutely.

I mean in many ways the only people who are actually trying to

expose wrongdoing right now are the media.

And um one of the many ironies in this story is that Henry Blodgett, after he is shot into the headlines because of his POS email, he then faces his own series of, you know, attacks and censure and stuff like that, leaves the industry.

And then he pops up as someone who's doing all kinds of interesting ventures, including funding a media or running a media outlet and creating

Yeah.

You know, the world has a very strange way of going full circle after all this.

Um, nothing like being pilloried in the press to then end up creating your own media outfit after that.

But I'm curious, um you wrote this wonderful Lunch with the F T back in two thousand and nine, um, where you interviewed him, and you say at the end

Now fifty, his hair has a few new grey flecks, and the wrinkles around the eyes are a bit deeper than they were during his glory years, when you were talking to him so much, both during the extraordinary rise and then afterwards for your book.

We shake hands, and he walks off slowly, a man who has all the time in the world.

which of course he never had when he knew him initially.

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