Financial journalists don’t get the respect they deserve. Scottish journalist Jamie McGeever (@ReutersJamie) has traveled the world covering financial markets, including NYC, London, Madrid and all over Brazil and Europe. His work at Reuters put him at the center of the chaos of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Also discussed: bullfighting, Celtic football and the most charming world leaders.

Countries featured: Brazil, Scotland, England, Spain, USA

Publications featured: Dow Jones, Reuters

Jamie discusses moving from his native Scotland to Brazil to teach English out of university (5:53), bullfighting and Ernest Hemingway (8:28), being thrown in the deep end of journalist at the Dow Jones news wire in Rio de Janeiro (14:02), an extremely rapid succession of jobs and moves that eventually take him to Reuters and Wall Street (19:49), the 2008 financial crisis as the story of a lifetime (27:25), why he's such a big deal on Twitter (36:56), his stint in TV news (43:51), switching from the news side to being a columnist (56:21), a story that got away about possible financial wrongdoing (1:01:40) and finally the lightning round(1:05:30).

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

Jamie's Reuters columns - https://reut.rs/3noQGrL

Toros Twitter account - https://bit.ly/2XgBGBI

Daniel Dale on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3A6F00i

John King on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3hpsIca

Clarissa Ward on Twitter - https://bit.ly/3EcelSb

The Football Men documentary part 1 - https://bit.ly/3hl4u2z

The Thick of It on IMDb - https://imdb.to/3ntqNHl

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