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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The Story of Money · The financial scams that brought Albania to the brink of war · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

They took in deposits, they voice-verified

paid out interest, they made loans, they they got the economy going. voice-verified

So look voice-verified

Sometimes it's, you know, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. voice-verified

And they thought this was probably maybe on balance a good thing. voice-verified

Yeah, and obviously as we're going to be discussing later, there were many reasons why they didn't really pull those threads until maybe it was too late. voice-verified

Uh, but Fatis, I think, you know, we are now going into the full pyramid scheme era. voice-verified

I think maybe it's worth talking about what a pyramid scheme is, because really it's just a business model that revolves around recruiting new members. voice-verified

It's like into a pyramid because you have to get a growing number of investors. voice-verified

or employees or whatever at the bottom to support the people at the top that make a lot of money. voice-verified

But a Ponzi scheme is really the most famous version of a pyramid scheme. voice-verified

It's named after Charles Ponzi, an Italian con artist who in the 1920s in America basically defrauded investors of around $20 million, which was a fortune at the time. voice-verified

He promised them safe but fantastically high returns. voice-verified

And in reality, it was all bollocks, basically. voice-verified

He stole the money, he lived large. voice-verified

And later on he he told the journalist that his whole model was, and I've got a quote here: uh my business was simple, it was the old game of robbing Peter to pay Paul. voice-verified

And I I love when my charlatans and scams are honest. voice-verified

But let's return to Albania in the 1990s. voice-verified

So we're in the mid-1990s, around half a dozen major Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes. voice-verified

that are in the process of being set up. voice-verified

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