Podcast Episodes
Back to Search215. How Near Is An AI Crash?
How big is the AI bubble? When it bursts, who will be hurt? What impact on jobs and wages in artificial intelligence having now?
Robert discusses wi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
214. Are Tory Cuts Credible?
What is Badenoch’s new fiscal Golden Rule? How many vulnerable people would be hurt by their planned welfare cuts? Why would the Tories slash oversea…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
213. The Decline And Fall Of The London Stock Exchange
Why don't companies want to list in London anymore? Why is this damaging for all of us? How much will it cost the Treasury in lost tax if companies f…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Has Reeves Been Unlucky Or Unwise?
Will any of the schemes and policies announced at Labour’s conference actually much us richer? Will the Chancellor be bailed out in her budget by inf…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
How Should Reeves Fill The £30bn Hole?
What are the tax solutions to Reeves’s budget crisis? What tax changes would encourage growth? Can she afford to scrap the two-child benefit cap?
St…
6 months ago
210. Can The Government Save The UK Car Industry From The Cyber Attack On JLR?
Who is to blame for the £30bn of taxes Reeves needs to raise in the budget? Is Starmer’s big dream to turn the north east into an AI powerhouse pie i…
6 months ago
209. Why We Can’t Abandon The World’s Poor
How do we cut poor countries’ debts without rewarding corrupt dictators? After Trump’s abandonment of aid to developing countries, will poverty and d…
6 months, 1 week ago
Have We Just Surrendered Our Economic Independence To The US?
Episode 208
Should we worry that all our AI infrastructure will be owned by US firms? How can we turn schools and colleges into the drivers of economic recovery?…
6 months, 1 week ago
What Can We Learn About Farage’s Finances From His Accounts?
Episode 207
What are the Reform leader’s tax arrangements? Do the party leaders really publish their tax returns? Has there ever been a financially dodgier Prime…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Will Starmer Sack Mandelson Over Epstein?
Why do politicians hang out with billionaires? Are they a problem for democracy? What happens when a wealthy venture capitalist starts lobbying Briti…
6 months, 2 weeks ago