Embracing the Bond Market: Masters in Business with Robin Wigglesworth
For wealth professionals, it offers context on the fixed-income market's role in the financial system and a financial journalist's view of how market crises shaped coverage. The material is framed around financial history and journalism rather than portfolio recommendations.
Summary
By the running an ria deskBarry Ritholtz interviews Robin Wigglesworth, FT Alphaville editor and author of 'A Fabulous Debt,' about how bonds built the modern financial world. The episode also traces Wigglesworth's path from a Dubai trade magazine and Bloomberg to FT capital-markets coverage, and the description says the conversation covers the bond market as an economic engine, the 30-year mortgage and US debt concerns.
- Wigglesworth is editor of FT Alphaville and author of 'A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World.'
- The book frames bonds as the world's largest and most powerful financial engine, according to the introduction.
- The description says the conversation covers why the 30-year mortgage is called a miracle of the modern world and when to worry about US debt.
- The transcript excerpt covers Wigglesworth's career from a Dubai trade magazine and Bloomberg to FT capital-markets roles and reporting through crises.
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