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What can one woman reveal about Jewish life in medieval England? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Charles V of Spain depicted on a 16th-century gold coin

Kwasi Kwarteng "Wars are bloody expensive – so the only way nations can buy what they need is by printing their own money"

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The Napoleon of Fleet Street . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A loan transaction being recorded in a ledger, shown in a work by Marinus Van Reymerswaele

Medieval money tricks and the modern world

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Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 16th-century portrait of Bess of Hardwick. Bess's talent, ambition and eye for a well-connected husband elevated her to dizzying levels of wealth and power in Tudor England. (Photo by Bridgeman Art Library)

Bess of Hardwick: schemer, social climber, scourge of Elizabeth I

Cartoon from American satirical magazine Puck, c1885, showing American millionaires playing Monopoly with the country's assets

Who were the tycoons of the Gilded Age? Meet the ruthless ‘robber barons’ who made millions

John Duval Gluck, Jr, 'the Santa Claus man', pictured left, visiting the General Post Office to promote the Santa Claus Association’s benefit show

The con man who saved Christmas

A broker looks at his screens at Frankfurt's stock exchange on 15 September 2008. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP/Getty Images)

The 2008 financial crisis explained

Lord Fiske, chairman of the Decimal Currency Board, makes a purchase at a Woolworths using the new currency on Decimal Day, 15 February 1971

Decimal Day: when Britain said farewell to the shilling

An ink drawing of a London 'rag fair' where old clothes and textiles were traded, c1800. (Image by Alamy)

Regency inequality: the gap between rich and poor in Georgian Britain

The then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump taking part in the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, 19 October 2016. Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was “rigged” against him. (Photo by Joe Raedle/AFP/Getty Images)

A brief history of election “rigging” in the United States

A Wall Street speculator tries to sell his car to passersby

Your guide to... the Great Depression

Scores of people milled about the entrance to the Stock Exchange on 24 October 1929, as the market went through the greatest shake up in its history. It was a light tremor heralding the earthquake to come. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

The Wall Street Crash: the day the bubble burst

American business magnate JD Rockefeller sits at a desk

Q&A Who was the first billionaire?