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The temerity of austerity
Season 1 Episode 378
George Osbourne was the UK Chancellor wedded to austerity. “More cuts, more difficult decisions” he said at the start of 2014, as he struggled to get…
2 years, 9 months ago
Never too big to fail us
Season 1 Episode 377
Last Wednesday Optus phone, mobile and internet users in Australia went without and sort of service for a full working day, starting from about 4 in …
2 years, 9 months ago
AI – overhyped or capable of great things?
Season 1 Episode 376
Everyone is talking about AI right now. Rishi Sunak’s new best friend is Elon Musk, who has been over in Britain to talk about it and the danger it p…
2 years, 9 months ago
Does Andreessen need a dose of techno realism?
Season 1 Episode 375
Marc Andreessen is the brains behind the Mosaic web browser, that paved the way for the web interfaces that made the Internet useable. He’s, quite ri…
2 years, 9 months ago
Corporate Bullsh*t and what it’s doing to us
Season 1 Episode 374
Entrepreneur Nick Hanauer says he is one of the richest 0.1% of people, but he’s a defender of the people. That’s why he’s exposed the lies we are fe…
2 years, 9 months ago
Why are some countries poor?
Season 1 Episode 373
A simple challenge on the podcast this week – how do you fix world poverty? When he was President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim set a target of endi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Stand, but don’t deliver
Season 1 Episode 372
Rishi Sunak is seemingly proud to have cancelled the only real nation building project Britain has had for decades. Instead, the money will be spent …
2 years, 10 months ago
Does human behaviour render all economic models useless?
Season 1 Episode 371
Economists like to believe human behaviour is predictable. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t have a job. Steve Keen argue that we do tend to behave l…
2 years, 10 months ago
Liz Truss Deciphered
Season 1 Episode 370
Liz Truss is back. She kept a fairly low profile after very short tenure as the UK Prime Minister, but popped up again for a speech at the Institute …
2 years, 10 months ago
Better the dollar you know?
Season 1 Episode 369
The US dollar is creating real problems right now. Speculators are buying it up as US Treasuries (bonds) offer higher yields at lower prices than oth…
2 years, 11 months ago