Robin Wigglesworth
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The Story of Money · How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism · 12 Aug 2026
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the world.
Why do you think these journalists and these sort of...
Jungers did this?
I mean, was it just to sort of have a scapegoat?
Today on the story of money, a financial crash that mutates into pure political poison.
And sure, yes, every financial crash leaves people poorer, but some leave something far more dangerous behind.
And in this case, it ultimately, arguably paved the way to genocide.
So Gillian is away this week, but to tell today's story, I'm joined by Liaquat Ahmed.
He's the author of Lords of Finance, one of my favourite books on financial history, and now 1873, which covers the numerous financial crises that happened around the world in that fateful year.
Liaquat, thanks so much for being here.
This is a real pleasure.
So, Jakob, in today's show, we're going to be talking about how a spectacular stock market crash led to the birth of a new, virulent, modern brand of antisemitism.
In fact, it was in the wake of this crash that the term antisemitism was coined, right?
Well, that sounds sadly very familiar.
Well, we're going to be meeting a lot of people along the way.
The banker who became the main scapegoat.
Naturally, he was Jewish.
The government leaders who failed to quash this pernicious phenomenon when it arose.
And ultimately, how Adolf Hitler would exploit these same ideas decades later with terrible, terrible consequences.
Welcome to the story of money from the Financial Times.
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