THE HOUSE THAT LENDS
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THE HOUSE THAT LENDS Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 17 min
Frankfurt, 1744 to 1812. A Jewish coin dealer in a locked street builds the firm that will finance Europe. Mayer Amschel Rothschild cannot own land, cannot join a guild, cannot walk in the public promenade, and cannot leave the Judengasse after dark.
THE HOUSE THAT LENDS Book 2
4 parts · 15 h 27 min
Manchester and London, 1798 to 1836. A Frankfurt cloth buyer in his early twenties arrives in England with a letter of credit and no English, and dies thirty-eight years later as the man the British government sends for when it needs gold moved across a continent at war.
THE HOUSE THAT LENDS Book 3
4 parts · 15 h 15 min
Augsburg, Innsbruck, Venice, Rome and the Hungarian copper mountains, 1459 to 1525. Jacob Fugger inherits a share of a weaving and trading house and turns it into the bank that finances the Habsburgs. His clients are men no court can compel: an archduke, an emperor, a pope, a king of Hungary.
THE HOUSE THAT LENDS Book 4
4 parts · 15 h 34 min
New York, 1857 to 1913. The richest country on earth has no central bank, no lender of last resort, and nothing that can create a dollar in an emergency. What it has instead is a private partnership at the corner of Wall and Broad, and one man in it whose word moves money.
THE HOUSE THAT LENDS Book 5
4 parts · 18 h 13 min
New York, Boston, Stockholm and Jersey City, 1856 to 2003. In a private bank the capital is not an abstraction on a balance sheet; it is a specific sum belonging to a specific man, and it leaves when he does.
THE HOUSE THAT LENDS Book 6
4 parts · 15 h 23 min
California and the world, 1958 to 2008. A San Francisco bank mails sixty thousand live credit cards, unasked, to the people of Fresno, and starts a business it cannot control: paper sales drafts in mail sacks, losses nobody will own, and a system in which every participant competes with every other.