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If shares had a use-by date.
Season 1 Episode 40
Imagine if shares had a use by date. If you pass the shares issued by a company on to a secondary market, the clock starts ticking. What would that d…
9 years, 3 months ago
Should short selling be banned?
Season 1 Episode 39
A big chunk of the trades that happen in shares are sold short. In other words, the trader takes a punt that the price will go down. In effect you se…
9 years, 3 months ago
Regional wealth diversity – how economics ignores the dimension of space
Season 1 Episode 38
London and the southeast accounts for a third of the UK’s gross disposable household income. The rest of the country somehow scrapes by. But it’s cle…
9 years, 4 months ago
Does Modern Monetary Theory make sense?
Season 1 Episode 37
Modern Monetary Theory states that’s, because the government of a country is the monopoly supplier of money, it has an unlimited capacity to pay for …
9 years, 4 months ago
Lies, damn lies and employment statistics
Season 1 Episode 36
Figures out in the US last week showed the unemployment rate had dropped to just 4.5 percent, a long way from the 10% rate back in 2009. Yet Donald T…
9 years, 4 months ago
Do minimum wages reduce inequality?
Season 1 Episode 35
Mark Perry, Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Michigan, believes that raising the minimum wage will push costs up so high compa…
9 years, 4 months ago
The rising impact of the gig economy
Season 1 Episode 34
Latest UK employment statistics show that more than half of the jobs added in the last year went to the self-employed. Part of this will be entrepren…
9 years, 4 months ago
Can you have a free market for public goods?
Season 1 Episode 33
It seems there’s a relentless desire to try and apply free market principles to public goods, like health, education, defence and research. Even thou…
9 years, 4 months ago
Do poor people make the rich richer?
Season 1 Episode 32
Karl Marx argued that the bourgeoisie got rich by creaming their wealth off the proletariat who did all the work. But in this podcast Prof Steve Keen…
9 years, 4 months ago
Does misinformation feed capitalism?
Season 1 Episode 31
Traders buy and sell based, often, on hearsay. Mum and dad investors can take a punt based on advice from ‘experts’ or from the lies they see in a co…
9 years, 4 months ago