Robin Wigglesworth

🎇 Happy US publication day to A FABULOUS DEBT! 🎇 The working title of the book was The Greatest Show on Earth: An Affectionate Biography of the Bond Market, which probably sums up my feelings about the subject.

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Not the most important record being broken these days, but my 10-year old just said he was hungry and could i make him something exactly 11 minutes after we finished eating dinner.

FT Alphaville is live-blogging the Anthropic S-1. 🍿 www.ft.com/content/4b2b...

The rise and fall of the £150bn ‘diversified growth fund’ phenomenon www.ft.com/content/cec7...

One of the grimmest things I’ve read all year.

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France is just very French isn’t it?

Now that's what I call a lede. ftav.substack.com/p/of-spacex-...

“A global, AI-powered premium media and intelligence business”. 🤮 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

Me: wow 2021 was pretty mental. We’ll never see so much stupid financial stuff again 2026: 😎

We are DEFINITELY doing the Nangle Angle.

Brits gonna Brit.

🚨 French bonds have been hit hard, but we’re still a LONG way from proper panic levels. www.ft.com/content/9aa4...

Second (and final) part of my conversation with @robinwigglesworth.ft.com about money and the French Revolution is now available! Includes his bemusement at the term "king napping," a chance for me to say "a republic has NO KINGS," and eventually a guy from Corsica www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3BR...

Good lord. www.theverge.com/policy/10167...

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Fwiw this includes me (a British citizen but born abroad), my Norwegian midwife partner, and two of my three children. Nice to know that The Times thinks we are undesirable but has watched “helplessly” as we lived in London.

A Fabulous Debt pairs well with a Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon.

“Please remember that we don’t do these things for the clicks; we do them because we can.”

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Wow. Grim. www.ft.com/content/93ba...

The French revolution was a bloody fight for liberty, equality and fraternity. But it was also a battle over money. 💸 In part deux, The Story of Money tackles the financial transformation of France as it descended into war, political turmoil and the Reign of Terror. youtu.be/S3BRFhpb0Ok?...

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Superb story structuring by @kieranjsmith.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9bc1...

We weren’t going to write anything about the new Liz Truss book. But Alphaville is a customer-centric blog that cares passionately about our key stakeholders. www.ft.com/content/6d34...

Fabulous line-up of beautiful charts that are still open for bidding. And remember, the proceeds go to charity! www.ft.com/content/95e1...

My work here is done. (seriously though, if you’ve read and liked then please rate and even leave a review on Goodreads, Amazon, Waterstones, B&N etc, it is incredibly helpful for the book, and wildly gratifying for me to read on a purely personal level).

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Expanded on recent mini threads over the last month on why anti-globalization populism in the US may have peaked. I would like to think that Globalization 2.0 may be a “Sometimes the dustbin of history turns out to be the recycling can” phenomenon. www.ft.com/content/ba3b...

Week's over, go home. ftav.substack.com/p/attention-...

Thanks to everyone for coming!

The Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, signed into US law last month, is now exempting Russia. www.ft.com/content/836e...

We have a new measurement of time: one zacharia is five days. Far more elegant than the unwieldy 11 day scaramucci.

Microsoft Paint 🎨 as.ft.com/r/a5daec4b-f...

A reminder that I’m at Daunt’s Marylebone branch today at 3pm to sign copies of A Fabulous Debt (or Trillions fwiw) for anyone who fancies it.

I hereby declare Alphaville’s Art of the Chart OPEN.

“Wigglesworth the wait?” 😀 bondvigilantes.com/blog/2026/10...

But what is all that borrowed money being spent on — apart from paying the interest on all that borrowed money? Our friends over on @alphaville.ft.com trawled the ledgers of world governments so we don't have to, and the results are ... illuminating. Read the story on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/GGJkQWv

Had @robinwigglesworth.ft.com join me on Better Offline to explain how both corporate and sovereign bonds work, why you should care, and what you need to know about the tech industry’s growing debt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzHF... linktr.ee/betteroffline

Liberté, égalité, fraternité! The Story of Money is this week tackling the French Revolution — and how it was also a battle over debt and money. The first of a double-header with the wonderful @rlspang.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZeN...

Maybe R-star were the friends we made along the way?

As always, some great comments under my piece about Woodford's Nobel. www.ft.com/content/0c82...

Btw a reminder that I’ll be signing copies of A Fabulous Debt — which Daunt named as one of its books of the week — at Daunt’s London Marylebone branch at 3pm this coming Friday. Hope to see at least somebody there!

Went on the Morning Brew Daily to explain bonds and why they’re a lot more important than trading Pokemon cards (ie stocks to the rest of you). youtu.be/vuDPtFkt4XM

"Certain things children just need to grow up with & 'A #Muppets Christmas Carol' is high on my list." @robinwigglesworth.ft.com on #MoneyUnplugged with @chrishillalx.bsky.social youtu.be/PwkM7dGMVMQ?...