Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Removing the green premium
Season 1 Episode 251
40 world leaders go together virtually this week, for a bit of an impromptu climate summit called by Joe Biden, before the next big climate conferenc…
5 years, 4 months ago
Yellen’s global tax is a non starter
Season 1 Episode 250
Janet Yellen has repeatedly called for countries to raise their corporate taxes, so they are in-line with the increases she has planned for the US. T…
5 years, 4 months ago
Central banks investigate digital money
Season 1 Episode 249
You might have thought that digital currencies were the domain of cryptocurrency evangelists, and were largely stores of wealth rather than money use…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Fallacy of the Supply Curve
Season 1 Episode 248
Last week we looked at how economics text books that taught us the law of demand, and how fundamentally flawed it was. Today, equally as useless, the…
5 years, 4 months ago
The fallacy of the demand curve
Season 1 Episode 247
Steve Keen believes the way we look at economics is wrong from the ground up. Take the demand curve, for example. It shows how, when prices fall dema…
5 years, 5 months ago
Global Britain, owned by the world
Season 1 Episode 246
Post Brexit we were promised a global Britain. It’s got off to a bad start with a massive fall in exports to the EU in the first month of this new ut…
5 years, 5 months ago
Vaccination is a global pursuit
Season 1 Episode 245
The UK chose to respond to a global pandemic by reducing the amount of money given in foreign aid. Yet COVID-19 is attacking every country in the wor…
5 years, 5 months ago
Economies are too scarred to bounce back quickly
Season 1 Episode 244
The UK won’t see an end to lockdown measures until July, but after that the hope of many is that the economy will bounce back quickly. The Bank of En…
5 years, 6 months ago
Who pays for a free press?
Season 1 Episode 243
Australians can no longer turn to Facebook for news. From today they have banned Aussies from posting links to news sites on their platform, or for F…
5 years, 6 months ago
Has the last year shown us how to save the planet?
Season 1 Episode 242
In 2019 Greta Thunberg spoke to politicians at the UN Climate Week, saying they were promoting fairy tales of eternal economic growth. The next year …
5 years, 6 months ago