{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61926927b481c700126c2eb2/65a9a9b1e7c4ed001641413f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Ups and Downs of Bill Gross, Bond King","description":"<p>Bill Gross was the \"Master of the Universe\" who got the world's attention when he declared in 2010 that UK government debt was sitting \"on a bed of nitroglycerine\". The man who built the modern bond markets, Gross seemed to have it all. But then he blew up his career just a few short years later with some very strange behaviour. We talk to Mary Childs, journalist and author of a book on Gross, about the strange life and times of a bond market Icarus and his dead&nbsp;cat Bob.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Presented by Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins</p><p>With Mary Childs.</p><p>Produced and edited by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>In association with Briefcase.News</p>","author_name":"Jonathan Ford and Neil Collins"}