Robin Wigglesworth

Please prepare yourself for months of shameless self-promotion, mute me on socials, feel free to avoid me in public etc, because my next book — A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World — is now officially available for pre-orders.

Unemployment really sucks, exhibit MCXXVII ft.trib.al/Eo7srT0

New Nasdaq rules offer SpaceX free liquidity ft.trib.al/k9pRhXw

@RebaseMMT Don’t know exactly when, but Chinese language rights have been sold, so I’m hoping soon afterwards.

@RobinWigg "When will the Chinese version be released?"

If you’re interested in a sneak preview of my upcoming book A FABULOUS DEBT, we recorded a whole podcast on one of the chapters — the stupendously large 19th railway bond boom, the Panic of 1873 and the fall of Jay Cooke. ft.com/content/88e42b…

The US Treasury is too poor (and has too few reserves) to bailout -- or even provide a swap to -- the very rich Gulf family oil and investment businesses ... With @StephenPaduano ft.com/content/1f93e4…

Does size matter? ft.trib.al/aCqmdNl

Spain either hates short sellers or wants you to get up earlier in the morning ft.trib.al/i1Ync9v

REPORTER: You mentioned that, staying on as Fed governor, you intend to keep a low profile. Could you give us a little more detail on what that looks like? JEROME POWELL: *ducks down*

@leohenkels Plenty of Dutch finance, but not specifically florins. Have tried to avoid going down related but different rabbit holes, like the history of money, or central banks, unless it’s central to the history of bonds.

@RobinWigg Any discussion of the Dutch florin in here?

Please prepare yourself for months of shameless self-promotion, mute me on socials, feel free to avoid me in public etc, because my next book — A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World — is now officially available for pre-orders.

A quick taxonomy of fund finance ft.trib.al/4YmZsen

Fascinating post on the self-styled “front page of the internet”, which has now hit 120mn daily active users but may need to sell its soul to grow from here. ft.com/content/71d0e5…

@LourensTouwen They’re mostly there to give context. I focus more on the Dutch renten from that era. But Johan de Witt and his unfortunate end is in there…

@RobinWigg awesome! I read the original De Witt's Lyfrente booklet in the archive last year for a blogpost on the topic. Looking fwd to your book to get the full picture

@LourensTouwen Yep!

@RobinWigg cool! does "17th century dyke-makers" mean you discuss the life annuities in Holland by any chance?

@Pembrokestcap 🫡

@RobinWigg Sigh, if you insist on leveraging how I’ve enjoyed all your FT content! Just pre-ordered. Good luck with it and rooting for you.

@timpierotti1 I thought of that but was worried that might seem too nakedly grasping. There’s a chapter on Hamilton and the First Report on the Public Credit though!

@RobinWigg Hamilton on the cover?

@OisinBollwerk Here you go: as.ft.com/r/8ee84654-815…

@RobinWigg can we get an early (small) sample on preorder?

@CasinoCapital Don’t know yet! Definitely not me though…

@RobinWigg Sounds great, done 🙂 Who's narrating the audiobook?

@joeljohn Imagine being the author, having to wait this long for your baby to pop out…

@RobinWigg just pre ordered now i wait till september to read this??

@LOGOinvestor 😲

@RobinWigg Does it come with caffeine pills? 😂 I just had to! Congrats!!