Inside the Most Powerful Bank You’ve Never Heard Of | IEA Interview

Podcast: IEA Podcast · Institute of Economic Affairs

Opublikowano: 2026-10-13

In this IEA interview, Daniel Freeman, Managing Editor and Deputy Editorial Director at the IEA, speaks to historian, veteran foreign correspondent and author Adam LeBor about the second edition of his book Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World. The conversation explores the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), perhaps the most important bank most people have never heard of. LeBor explains how the BIS was founded in 1930 by Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbank and Montagu Norman of the Bank of England to handle German reparations after the First World War, and how...