Robin Wigglesworth
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first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
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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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Who was it that said there's nothing so terrible for your mental health as seeing your neighbour get rich?
languishing.
Travesty, yes.
I cannot stand for that.
Unfortunately, my German is too rusty to be able to translate to German, but I will not stand for it, I will say, with a Junker accent.
But this seems to be a scenario where at least some people should be sensing some trouble ahead, essentially.
Didn't anybody stop to say this is a little bit mad?
Okay, so in two short years, Germany's gone from the high of winning a war against France, which must have felt pretty great, unifying into one state, becoming the preeminent power of continental Europe, to a financial high, the Gründerzeit, the founder's boom, because of all these new companies that are getting started, people...
throwing money at the stock market.
Maybe you can actually help me out with this review.
What are the most concerning signs, right?
Because I mean, stocks going up isn't in isolation enough to start worrying about a bubble in a financial crisis.
What were the ones that people maybe at the time, and certainly in hindsight, were obvious signs that things were going completely insane?
Yeah, there's no financial conduct authorities, there's no SEC, there's no financial regulator whatsoever at the time.
they're borrowing money to buy, essentially.
Okay, so people aren't buying shares and the stockbrokers just have to buy the shares of these new companies themselves.
That is definitely a warning sign.
Yes.
We have obviously foreshadowed that this does not end well.
This is a boom that goes from 1871 to 1873 and then it goes kaput or it becomes what I think people at the time called the Grunderkrack.
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