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Can we beat stagflation?
Season 1 Episode 300
Stagflation is that worrying combination of rises prices in a stagnant economy. Central banks believe the answer is to push up interest rates, to mag…
4 years, 3 months ago
Should oil companies pay a windfall tax?
Season 1 Episode 299
BP made $12.8 billion profit last year, $4.1 billion on that in the fourth quarter. In the first three months of this year Shell’s profits reached $9…
4 years, 3 months ago
Can developed nations reindustrialize?
Season 1 Episode 298
The supply chain disruption from COVID, and the imperialist ambitions of Vladimir Putin have demonstrated, more than ever, the need for nations – or …
4 years, 3 months ago
Just how sustainable are house prices?
Season 1 Episode 297
Property expert Russell Quirk maintains that housing will always be a good investment and prices will, in the long run, always go up. Perhaps this ye…
4 years, 3 months ago
What’s wrong with the rentiers?
Season 1 Episode 296
The UK the Chancellor’s wife Akshata Murty was in the news a couple of weeks ago when it was revealed that she was claiming non-domicile status in th…
4 years, 4 months ago
Feedback loops kill the equilibrium fantasy
Season 1 Episode 295
Economists like to think that there’s an equilibrium that the economy is either briefly moving away from or heading back to, and it’s all explained i…
4 years, 4 months ago
The inflation genie, can we bottle it?
Season 1 Episode 294
The inflation genie is out of the bottle. Can we get it back in there before it does too much damage? Central banks are trying to tackle it by racing…
4 years, 4 months ago
Is it possible to avoid another fuel crisis?
Season 1 Episode 293
Energy prices are going through the roof. They were before Ukraine erupted, but with Russia the world’s second biggest producer of natural gas, and I…
4 years, 4 months ago
EU talks bonds. And this time it’s different
Season 1 Episode 292
The EU has talked about issuing new bonds to protect its eastern borders against Russia and to prepare Europe for a future without reliance on Russia…
4 years, 5 months ago
Does Economic Isolationism Work?
Season 1 Episode 291
The war in Ukraine looks set to continue for a long time. A 90 minute high-level meeting between the two parties, mediated in Turkey, got nowhere tod…
4 years, 5 months ago