Liaquat Ahamed on the Railroad Bubble That Crashed the World #642

The Meb Faber Show by The Idea Farm

Jul 31, 202642:30Business

Today’s guest is Liaquat Ahamed, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, one of the greatest financial history books ever written. His new book is called 1873: The Rothschi...

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