Robin Wigglesworth
Person on 4 sites
Robin Wigglesworth is a Norwegian financial journalist, the editor of FT Alphaville, at the Financial Times.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Current role: Editor of FT Alphaville, Financial Times (opens wiqqi.app)
- Podcast: Co-host of The Story of Money (opens wiqqi.app)
- Books: Trillions; A Fabulous Debt (opens wiqqi.app)
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @robinwigglesworth.ft.com (opens bsky.app)
“Classic Arsenal. Pulling, pushing, tactical fouls etc.Imagine how good they could be if they tried to play football.”
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Bluesky: @robinwigglesworth.ft.com (opens bsky.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Europe should go more on the offence against sabotage, cyber warfare and airspace incursions, beyond just supporting Ukraine. (opens korrents.com)
“It’s wild to me that this kind stuff — assassination threats, sabotage, cyber warfare and airspace encroachment — is now entirely routine. Isn’t it time that Europe goes more on the offence to show that both sides can…”
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Manchester City should have the book thrown at it over its financial charges. (opens korrents.com)
“I was pretty cynical about Man City’s financial doping and didn’t like the idea of stripping titles etc, but seeing their utterly shameless response and desperate threats makes me want the book thrown at them.”
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Hedge funds owning 8.5% of the US Treasury market is dangerous, given how systemically important that market is. (opens korrents.com)
“Hedge funds now own 8.5% of the entire Treasury market — more than China, Japan and Saudi Arabia combined. This is dangerous, given how systemically important the US government bond market is.”
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Europe should go more on the offence against sabotage, cyber warfare and airspace incursions, beyond just supporting Ukraine. (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Barbarians at the Gate (opens rcmnd.app)
“Um, I think the obvious first place, the first book is is Barbarians at the Gate. I I genuinely think it's kind of the gold standard of of narrative business journalism today, but really it's kind of like um a history…”
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The Prize (opens rcmnd.app)
“Um my second book, uh Daniel Jurgens's the prize. It's a history of the oil market. It's kind of the model for a lot of similar books that came first, but Jurgen's kind of the OG. Uh, it's I I love those histories that…”
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Lords of Finance (opens rcmnd.app)
“Uh, I think I'm going to go with Leak Ahmed's Lords of Finance. Uh, it's just a fabulous book about this kind of tumultuous interwar period, uh, in the run-up to the Great Depression.”
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Barbarians at the Gate (opens rcmnd.app)