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Robin Wigglesworth
Writer and Editor
Robin Wigglesworth is the editor of the Financial Times’ finance blog Alphaville. He focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing, finance, and economics across the world, and writes longer-form features, analyses, profiles, and columns. Before joining the Financial Times in 2008, he worked at Bloomberg News. His new book, A Fabulous Debt: The Epic Story of How Bonds Built the Modern World, is available now.
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After a plague-ridden crusade left Venice drowning in debt, the republic created the world's first bond market, changing the relationship between the government and its citizens.
