Gillian Tett

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

Gillian Tett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Story of Money · The 1980s Garfield buyout that changed corporate finance · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

He sounds quite an unusual type of voice-verified

public servant then, because back in the nineteen sixties and seventies, the people who were serving in high office voice-verified

Usually weren't coming from Wall Street as such, and yet he sounds like he was quite a strong believer in capitalism and in the profit motive. voice-verified

Dara said almost like a Gordon gecko character who believed that greed was good. voice-verified

Government. voice-verified

Essentially, what we have then in the middle of the 1970s is this hard-nosed, no-nonsense free market ideologue, William E. voice-verified

Simon, who strongly believes that you need to have competition and the profit motive to drive efficiency and growth. voice-verified

And he's a former financial trader, so he knows how markets work. voice-verified

He's also been voice-verified

in the government during the nineteen seventies under both Nixon and Ford. voice-verified

And that's made him even more convinced. voice-verified

His experience of being in government and then seeing the Soviet Union voice-verified

that you have to have free market forces to deliver growth. voice-verified

So that's our key character, and then in nineteen seventy-seven something critical happens. voice-verified

The Republicans lose power, get kicked out, and a brand new Democratic president comes in, Jimmy Carter. voice-verified

So how does that unleash what happens next? voice-verified

So in terms of their skill set, it seems a bit like a match made in heaven. voice-verified

Um and you know, what was Simon hoping to get out of doing all this? voice-verified

This was the era of breed is good, wasn't it? voice-verified

You know? voice-verified

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