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Down to Business English — 152 episodes

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1

The Yen Carry Trade

2

The Fall and Resurgence of Intel … Maybe

3

RAMageddon

4

Calculating Inflation

5

Tokenmaxxing and the Corporate AI Pullback

6

Guyana’s Oil Boom

7

Sneakernomics Revisited

8

The Great Kiwi Exodus

9

Anthropic v. The United States

10

Hallyu and the K-Beauty Industry

11

SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump’s Trade Tariffs

12

The Netflix–Warner Bros. Acquisition (Part 1)

13

AI Slop: How Low-Quality Content Is Flooding the Internet

14

GLP-1 Inhibitors

15

Jaguar

16

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

17

Image Washing

18

The Stablecoin Gold Rush — Why Wall Street Is Betting on Digital Dollars

19

The Protein Push: From Bodybuilding Niche to Global Trend

20

The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Scandal

21

Reimagining Wearables

22

Back to the Workshop: The Rise of Blue-Collar Careers

23

Scarcity Marketing

24

The State of AI in 2025

25

Crowded Skies: The Commercial Satellite Boom

26

The Race to Develop Humanoid Robots

27

Meat the Future: New Zealand’s Red Meat Industry in Transition

28

Hong Fu Bets Big on India

29

Geographical Indications & Jamaican Rum

30

China's game-changing pharmaceutical and biotech industry

31

Time Shift: The Economic Impact of Daylight Saving Time

32

Rare Earth Minerals Explained

33

Brazilian Currency & Debt Crisis

34

Steel Standoff: The Blocked Nippon-US Steel Acquisition

35

Real Ice and their plan to save Arctic sea ice

36

BuzzFeed’s Hot Sale of Hot Ones

37

Coffee Talk: Starbucks CEO turnover and Luckin's expansion

38

BRICS: its aims and how it challenges G7 influence

39

Understanding Economic Stimulus

40

Big Tech goes Nuclear

41

Charles Ponzi - the father of Ponzi schemes - redux

42

Savory Snacks: Mars Inc.'s acquisition of Kellanova

43

Google’s Antitrust Battles

44

Panda Diplomacy

45

OPEC Explained: Part 2 - History and Present Day Status

46

OPEC Explained: Part 1 - Origins and Strategic Purpose

47

The CrowdStrike Incident: the largest global IT outage in history

48

Over Tourism Issues in Spain and Japan

49

The Dow Jones Industrial Average & Dow Theory

50

Elon Musk vs. The Brazilian Supreme Court

51

Dr. Copper: How Copper Prices Reflect Global Economic Health

52

Roots of Success: Turkey's Hair Transplant Boom

53

South Korean Chaebols & The Korea Discount

54

The US TikTok Ban: what you need to know

55

Egypt's Economic Headwinds

56

The Cocoa Crisis

57

Beauty in Distress: What went wrong at The Body Shop?

58

The Wide World of Sports Betting in the USA

59

Soaring Stocks and Semiconductor Success

60

Turbulent Skies: The Shifting Winds of Air Freight and Cargo

61

The Digital Nomad Lifestyle

62

Russian Gas Exports to Europe

63

Carbon Capture: climate saving technology or fossil fuel enabler?

64

The Cruise Line Industry

65

Economies across the Eurozone

66

The exit and reinstatement of Sam Altman

67

Rupert Murdoch: a retrospective of a media mogul

68

Unwrapping Kit Kat

69

Nvidia - The Journey from Video Games to AI Dominance

70

Congestion Charges - Bonus Vocabulary (Trial)

71

Congestion Charges - a deep dive into urban traffic solutions

72

Neo & Challenger Banks: Understanding the Fintech Landscape

73

The Okanagan Wine Industry

74

Understanding India's Economic Growth: Demographics, Markets, and Foreign Investment

75

Understanding the US Debt Ceiling

76

No Pay? No Pens! The Writers Guild of America Strike

77

Alibaba’s Big Break up and the Return of Jack Ma

78

The Beef with Brazilian Beef

79

The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

80

Air India’s Shopping Spree

81

The Strong US Dollar

82

Forever Chemicals

83

OpenAI & ChatGPT

84

The Business behind lotteries

85

The Canva Story - Part 1

86

The 3 Core Elements of an Effective Sales Plan (Part 1)

87

The Firm: How the British Royals make their money

88

Hayabusa2 & Asteroid Mining

89

Top Gun copyright issues

90

Canadian offices going to the dogs

91

The London Metal Exchange

92

Medical Tourism

93

Academy Award Slap and a Twitter Poison Pill

94

Ships ahoy: China’s naval build up

95

Meta takes remote work to the extreme

96

Charles Ponzi - the father of Ponzi schemes

97

Reverse Logistics

98

A Maple Syrup Shortage?

99

Inflation

100

Risk Management - Part 2

101

COP26

102

Chipageddon

103

The Great Resignation

104

Corporate fraud and criminality

105

Ten years of Tim Cook

106

China's regulation crackdown

107

Scarlett Johansson vs. Disney

108

Whisky - the water of life

109

Climate change & the economy

110

Ransomware

111

The European Super League

112

Non Fungible Tokens

113

Bottlenecks & Choke points

114

The GameStop Short Squeeze

115

Blowing in the Wind

116

Social Media Influencers

117

GAFA goes to Washington

118

Vaccine Race

119

The Economic Impact of Coronavirus

120

The Problem with Palm Oil

121

The Boeing 737 Max

122

The Business Impact of Trump's Tariffs

123

Casual Dining Chains & Jamie's Italian

124

Amazon H2

125

Brexit Update

126

Sneakernomics

127

Commodity Activism

128

Ghosn is Gone

129

The Belt & Road Project

130

What's Cooking in the Meal Kit Industry?

131

Trans Mountain Pipeline Dispute

132

Fast Fashion

133

Fake News

134

Poland and the EU

135

Developments in Saudi Arabia

136

German Elections

137

The Opioid Crisis in America

138

The Federal Reserve System

139

Marvel Comics: a business comeback of superhero proportions

140

Venezuela: the economic impact of a political crisis

141

Canada's Budding Marijuana Industry

142

South Korea Part 1: The Impeachment of Park Geun-hye

143

Global Counterfeiting

144

Alibaba: The World According to (Jack) Ma

145

The Climate Change Crisis: Big Business to the Rescue

146

White Gold: The International Ivory Trade

147

The Nintendo Story & Pokemon Go

148

Donald Trump: The Bankrupt Billionaire

149

The Troubles in Brazil

150

Millennials in the Workplace

151

U.S. - Cuba Trade Relations

152

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