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Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers

Behind The Money with the Financial Times by Topher Forhecz

Apr 29, 202653:37Business

Every now and then a new technology comes along that changes everything – electricity, computers, potentially AI. In mid-19th-century America, that technology was the steam locomotive. It knitted the US economy together,...

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Hitting the Buffers: The 1873 railway bust that broke one of America’s greatest financiers is an episode from Behind The Money with the Financial Times by Topher Forhecz. Every now and then a new technology comes along that changes everythi...

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Published Apr 29, 2026, 53:37 long, audio available.