Why won't trickle-down die? (with Mark Blyth)| Listen on Anghami

Nov 18

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters (with Diane Coyle)

For nearly a century, GDP has been the world’s go-to measure of economic success—but what if it’s been telling us the wrong story? It treats cigarette sales and cancer treatments as equally “good” for the economy, while caring for your kids, volunteering, or creating art don’t co ... Show More

36 m

Nov 11

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud (with Ben McKenzie)

Actor and author Ben McKenzie didn’t set out to become one of crypto’s fiercest critics—but when the pandemic hit and Hollywood shut down, his curiosity turned into a full-blown investigation. The result was the bestselling book, Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and ... Show More

32m 52s

Nov 4

Stock Buybacks and the Trillion Dollar Heist (with Senator Cory Booker)

Corporations are on track to spend more than $1.3 trillion on stock buybacks this year—money that could have gone toward higher wages, innovation, or community investment. That’s the real-life Trillion Dollar Heist at the center of our new comic from Civic Ventures, which follows ... Show More

39m 42s

Jul 2022

Money Talks: Britain's growth crisis

Britain’s Conservative party may be changing leadership, but it will take a lot more than that to change the country's gloomy economic situation. Prices are rising at their fastest pace in 40 years–at one of the highest rates in the West. The cost of servicing the country’s ballo ... Show More

39m 50s

Feb 2022

What the Heck Is Going on With the U.S. Economy?

<p>Should we be celebrating a Biden boom? Lamenting inflation and its consequences? Both?</p><p>We know how to talk about booms, like the ’90s. We know how to talk about busts, like after the financial crisis. We know how to talk about stagnation. What we don’t know how to talk a ... Show More

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Aug 2023

Money Talks: Lessons from the great macro experiment

American economists are scratching their heads in confusion. The Fed’s aggressive rate hikes hasn’t produced the outcome many expected. Instead of recession and massive layoffs, the US economy now looks tantalisingly close to a fabled “soft landing” with the jobs market remaining ... Show More

45m 30s

Apr 2021

Ken Rogoff: Does Bidenomics make sense?

The Covid pandemic looks like a watershed moment in global economics. Big Government is back as the failsafe engine of economic growth, as the usual fears such as soaring debt and rising inflation have been pushed aside. Stephen Sackur interviews acclaimed US economist Ken Rogoff ... Show More

22m 58s

May 2024

57. How to fix UK growth, why economists fail, and restructuring our economic institutions - Andy Haldane

What’s caused the UK’s growth problem and how can we fix it? Does the UK need more domestic investment? Should our economists be able to predict crises? As interest rates are left unchanged at a 16-year high of 5.25%, join Robert as he interviews Andy Haldane, former Chief Econo ... Show More

49m 17s

Jul 2023

The quest to save macroeconomics from itself

When it comes to big questions about the economy, we're still kind of in the dark ages. Why do some economies grow so much faster than others? How long is the next recession going to last? How do we stop inflation without wrecking the rest of the economy? These questions are the ... Show More

18m 53s

Oct 2023

The problem with Bidenomics

<p>Will Bidenomics help the US Democrats win another term in office? Will the policies be effective in tackling the climate crisis? Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, thinks not. In the last in our series on Bidenomics, he tells Gideon wh ... Show More

23m 33s

Why won't trickle-down die? (with Mark B...