Robin Wigglesworth
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1,983 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Aug
Robin Wigglesworth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I'm Robin Wigglesworth.
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The Story of Money · The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war · 17 Jun 2026
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I'm spotting a few weaknesses here in their business model.
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Today on the story of money.
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We are going to be covering what has to be one of the weirdest financial debacles of my lifetime.
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It was like a bizarre lab experiment carried out on an entire nation that went horribly wrong.
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I'm talking about Albania after the fall of communism, when the whole country got sucked into a vortex of pyramid schemes, essentially financial.
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Scams that triggered a near-civil war when they imploded.
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Its 1990s nightmare was huge relative to the size of its economy.
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It was the equivalent of a thousand Bernie Madoffs.
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And Albania's experience does have lessons for us today.
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It's a classic example of how human mass psychology can interact with finance in frightening ways, especially when there's a hot new thing.
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in town.
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Jaden is sadly traveling today, so he's stuck just with me.
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I'm Robin Wigglesworth and this is the story of money from the Financial Times.
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Despite Jillian's absence today, I'm thankfully not alone.
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I'm fortunately joined by our colleague, Ortensa Aliaj.
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She's the FT's banking editor, and probably even more importantly for us today, she's also a born and raised Albanian.
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Ortensa, thanks so much for being here.
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Well, obviously, you know, we want you here for your banking knowledge as well.
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