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When customs officials in Madagascar cheated their country out of tax revenues, economists caught them. But the fight is not over yet. 

Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times) joins to cohost an emergency episode explaining President Trump’s sweeping April 2 tariff announcement. Bown and Keynes turn to Douglas A. Irwin on history, Maurice Obstfeld on the US dollar, and Kathleen Claussen on law to clarify what we know ab ... Show More

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (City University of New York) joins for a wide-ranging conversation on historical lessons as well as some new thinking about international trade, the “agglomeration economies” driving geographically concentrated production, industrial policy, as well a ... Show More

 Lord Empey, former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, says the solution to issues over the Northern Ireland Protocol should be found by negotiating with the EU, not by unilateral action. He tells Bloomberg's Stephen Carroll and Yuan Potts that the Stormont executive and a new ... Show More

Trump unveils UK trade deal - the first since the ‘reciprocal’ tariff pause, what to look for in a first car and how AI will shape the future of shopping. 

New digital labels being trialled by British supermarkets could soon mean that yellow discount stickers have a limited shelf life - Will Bain finds out how it might work.The boss of the UK's biggest warehousing company, Hamid Moghadam of Prologis, says UK planning regulations nee ... Show More

Boris Johnson wants to introduce free ports in the UK. International trade secretary Liz Truss has said the 10 ports would create thousands of jobs. So, will these new tariff free zones, where goods can be imported and exported without the paperwork, help Britain grows its manufa ... Show More

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has urged the government to strike a deeper trade deal with the European Union to improve growth and “minimize negative effects” of Brexit. He welcomed the recent agreement with Brussels to reduce border checks on food, and rejoin the EU’s e ... Show More

The return of Sean McGovern to Ireland today is the most significant moment in the fight to dismantle the Kinahan cartel since sanctions were levelled against its top command in 2022. Nicola speaks with Niall Donald about the extradition of McGovern and we discuss how he went fro ... Show More

What were the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed in December 1921, following negotiations between the UK and Sinn Féin? How was it received by the Irish people? What was the process by which it was agreed between Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Michael Collins, and Arthur G ... Show More

Australia is caught in the middle of President Trump’s trade war just weeks ahead of a national election. Host Carmel Crimmins talks to Reuters correspondents Kirsty Needham and Wayne Cole about the fallout for Canberra as Beijing and DC face off over tariffs and the U.S. puts a ... Show More

Meeting Sir Keir Starmer at the White House, Donald Trump reported that America was working towards a trade deal with Britain “where the tariffs wouldn’t be necessary”.