Interesting times in the world bring interesting guests to the show. And, there's no better time than now to sit down with a global finance correspondent, especially with the U.S. unleashing their USD financial war against Russia. Robin Wigglesworth, a Financial Times journalist, joins us all the way from Oslo, Norway, for a captivating chat about his home country, the current turmoil between Ukraine and Russia and its impacts worldwide, and why there isn’t more of an uproar over the current “tech wreck”.

We also flip the script and talk to Robin about his many fascinating interviews, from industry icons like Larry Fink, Cliff Asness, and Jack Bogle, to the infamous bet between Warren Buffet and Ted Seides, and uncovering the inside scoop from his latest book, Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and changed Finance Forever. Plus, we take a deep dive into the massive growth in passive investing indices (3 million to be exact), ETFs, and more!

Chapters:

00:00-01:28 = Intro

01:29-06:32 = Norway

06:33-20:25 = Death of the Dollar? & the Oligarch Class

20:26-30:41 = Tech Wreck & Artificial Smoothness

30:42-43:52 = Memorable Interviews, Industry reporting & a $1.5 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund

43:53-53:41 = Trillions: a Chicago angle, and why Credit ETFs held up ok

53:42-01:11:14 = Trillions: Jack Bogle & Active vs Passive is BS

01:11:15-01:21:16 = Trillions: What the future looks like/ the Big get Bigger

Follow Robin on Twitter @RobinWigg and check out his latest book Trillions at robinwigglesworth.com

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