War and Gold (with Kwasi Kwarteng)

Episode 21

December 1 2023

40 minutes

Financial historian and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng discusses War And Gold, his 500-year review of ’empires, adventures and debt’. In conversation with Russell Napier, he also looks back on the fallout from the ‘fiscal statement’ of September 2022 and the power of the bond markets.

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