The Economics Show

Lessons in communication for Kevin Warsh. With Chris Giles

It is not a calm time in the markets. Investors are losing their cool while bond yields rise along with inflation. So where are central bankers? Offering words of calm? Or adding to the anxiety? The F...

2026-10-16

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The EU vs China: it’s complicated. With Bernd Lange

Europe has a China problem. Every single day, Europe buys a billion euros’ worth more stuff from China than it sells back. And the EU wants to stand up to Beijing over surging exports, which are chall...

2026-10-09

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Why Big Tech wants more economists

Tech companies are hiring economists to study how AI is reshaping work and society. But what happens when the companies building the technology also produce the research into its effects? Host Soumaya...

2026-10-02

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How to be a middle power in a superpower world. With Jenny Bates

The global economy is becoming increasingly hostile with tariffs, export controls and industrial policy being used as geopolitical weapons, while the world’s biggest powers compete for economic advant...

2026-09-25

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Can you spreadsheet your way to equal parenting? With Corinne Low

Dads today are doing more childcare than previous generations, so why hasn’t the parenting gap between mothers and fathers disappeared? One reason: mums are doing more too. Host Soumaya Keynes talks t...

2026-09-18

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Will US debt burst the AI bubble? With Ruchir Sharma

Building data centres and running the US government have something in common: they cost a lot of money. Tech companies are borrowing heavily to fund the AI build out, just as Washington is borrowing v...

2026-09-11

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Memory chip mania isn’t going away, with Dan Kim

In recent months, part of the chip market has been going bananas. Prices for memory chips – which AI data centres use in droves – have rocketed, as US tech companies lock in massive orders. That’s bad...

2026-09-04

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Kevin Warsh spoke — what did we learn? With Torsten Slok

Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh took to the stage at Jackson Hole under pressure. Inflation is sticky, bond markets have been wobbling and his insistence on minimal Fed communication has been seen b...

2026-08-29

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From "The Story of Money": How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

The 1873 Gründerkrach, the spectacular stock market crash that followed Germany’s unification, is one of history’s great financial maelstroms. But its most enduring legacy isn’t about money. Host Robi...

2026-08-21

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From "Trumponomics": Can the US Actually Tax Billionaires?

As wealth becomes increasingly concentrated — and artificial intelligence threatens to shift even more income from workers to investors — has the US tax system become outdated? Stephanie Flanders spea...

2026-08-14

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How to break China’s chokehold on rare earths

In the midst of the US-China trade conflict last year, Beijing unsheathed its fiercest weapon. By ramping up restrictions on exports of rare earth metals – crucial elements for high-tech manufacturing...

2026-08-07

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Will AI solve the productivity puzzle? With Nick Bloom

Productivity has been a problem for the past 15 years. In developed countries, weak demand, a lack of competition and a paucity of new ideas have all been blamed. Could AI finally reverse that trend? ...

2026-07-31

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Is China catching up with the US in AI? With Kyle Chan

The US has long been the world’s undisputed leader in AI. Now, that lead looks under threat. Cutting-edge Chinese models such as Kimi K3 are proving almost as capable as leading American models; meanw...

2026-07-24

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The US-Iran war has not triggered a food crisis — yet. With Adam Hanieh and Susannah Savage

When the US and Israel started bombing Iran earlier this year, market watchers eyed the oil markets nervously. But as the price of crude oil climbed, so did the price of another key commodity produced...

2026-07-17

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The economics of weight loss, with Rebecca Diamond and Claer Barrett

In the western world, richer people tend to be thinner – especially women. But does wealth make people thin, or does being thin make them wealthy? And could the rise of weight-loss drugs such as Mounj...

2026-07-10

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Why didn’t the Iran war cause a recession? With Tyler Goodspeed

When Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, economists were panicked. Several warned that a prolonged closure of the chokepoint could trigger a recession. After all, that’s what oil shocks do. But no reces...

2026-07-03

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How to win at AI (if you’re not the US or China), with AI minister Kanishka Narayan

When the US government banned a top AI lab from exporting its newest models, the world took notice. Export controls forbidding foreign access to Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable systems locked most of the...

2026-06-26

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China wanted western tech. Now, the tables have turned. With John Minnich

For decades, China accelerated its industrial development through a straightforward bargain: foreign firms invested in China, often through joint ventures, gaining access to the enormous Chinese marke...

2026-06-19

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Brexit at 10: What comes next? With Anand Menon

Just before the UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016, the Treasury (and others) warned the consequences would be catastrophic. GDP would fall and unemployment would rise, Sterling would dip and gover...

2026-06-12

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The US-China decoupling fantasy, with Jessica Chen Weiss

Everything looks to be going China’s way: Beijing has a stranglehold on the world’s critical minerals, and its high-tech manufacturing has rapidly become world-leading. Its massive trade surplus is un...

2026-06-05

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