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Down to Business English — 148 episodes

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1

Tokenmaxxing and the Corporate AI Pullback

2

Guyana’s Oil Boom

3

Sneakernomics Revisited

4

The Great Kiwi Exodus

5

Anthropic v. The United States

6

Hallyu and the K-Beauty Industry

7

SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump’s Trade Tariffs

8

The Netflix–Warner Bros. Acquisition (Part 1)

9

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

10

GLP-1 Inhibitors

11

Jaguar

12

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

13

Image Washing

14

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

15

The Protein Push: From Bodybuilding Niche to Global Trend

16

The Coldplay Kiss-Cam Scandal

17

Reimagining Wearables

18

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

19

Scarcity Marketing

20

The State of AI in 2025

21

Crowded Skies: The Commercial Satellite Boom

22

The Race to Develop Humanoid Robots

23

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

24

Hong Fu Bets Big on India

25

Geographical Indications & Jamaican Rum

26

China's game-changing pharmaceutical and biotech industry

27

Time Shift: The Economic Impact of Daylight Saving Time

28

Rare Earth Minerals Explained

29

Brazilian Currency & Debt Crisis

30

Steel Standoff: The Blocked Nippon-US Steel Acquisition

31

Real Ice and their plan to save Arctic sea ice

32

BuzzFeed’s Hot Sale of Hot Ones

33

Coffee Talk: Starbucks CEO turnover and Luckin's expansion

34

BRICS: its aims and how it challenges G7 influence

35

Understanding Economic Stimulus

36

Big Tech goes Nuclear

37

Charles Ponzi - the father of Ponzi schemes - redux

38

Savory Snacks: Mars Inc.'s acquisition of Kellanova

39

Google’s Antitrust Battles

40

Panda Diplomacy

41

OPEC Explained: Part 2 - History and Present Day Status

42

OPEC Explained: Part 1 - Origins and Strategic Purpose

43

The CrowdStrike Incident: the largest global IT outage in history

44

Over Tourism Issues in Spain and Japan

45

The Dow Jones Industrial Average & Dow Theory

46

Elon Musk vs. The Brazilian Supreme Court

47

Dr. Copper: How Copper Prices Reflect Global Economic Health

48

Roots of Success: Turkey's Hair Transplant Boom

49

South Korean Chaebols & The Korea Discount

50

The US TikTok Ban: what you need to know

51

Egypt's Economic Headwinds

52

The Cocoa Crisis

53

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

54

The Wide World of Sports Betting in the USA

55

Soaring Stocks and Semiconductor Success

56

Turbulent Skies: The Shifting Winds of Air Freight and Cargo

57

The Digital Nomad Lifestyle

58

Russian Gas Exports to Europe

59

Carbon Capture: climate saving technology or fossil fuel enabler?

60

The Cruise Line Industry

61

Economies across the Eurozone

62

The exit and reinstatement of Sam Altman

63

Rupert Murdoch: a retrospective of a media mogul

64

Unwrapping Kit Kat

65

Nvidia - The Journey from Video Games to AI Dominance

66

Congestion Charges - Bonus Vocabulary (Trial)

67

Congestion Charges - a deep dive into urban traffic solutions

68

Neo & Challenger Banks: Understanding the Fintech Landscape

69

The Okanagan Wine Industry

70

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

71

Understanding the US Debt Ceiling

72

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

73

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

74

The Beef with Brazilian Beef

75

The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

76

Air India’s Shopping Spree

77

The Strong US Dollar

78

Forever Chemicals

79

OpenAI & ChatGPT

80

The Business behind lotteries

81

The Canva Story - Part 1

82

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

83

The Firm: How the British Royals make their money

84

Hayabusa2 & Asteroid Mining

85

Top Gun copyright issues

86

Canadian offices going to the dogs

87

The London Metal Exchange

88

Medical Tourism

89

Academy Award Slap and a Twitter Poison Pill

90

Ships ahoy: China’s naval build up

91

Meta takes remote work to the extreme

92

Charles Ponzi - the father of Ponzi schemes

93

Reverse Logistics

94

A Maple Syrup Shortage?

95

Inflation

96

Risk Management - Part 2

97

COP26

98

Chipageddon

99

The Great Resignation

100

Corporate fraud and criminality

101

Ten years of Tim Cook

102

China's regulation crackdown

103

Scarlett Johansson vs. Disney

104

Whisky - the water of life

105

Climate change & the economy

106

Ransomware

107

The European Super League

108

Non Fungible Tokens

109

Bottlenecks & Choke points

110

The GameStop Short Squeeze

111

Blowing in the Wind

112

Social Media Influencers

113

GAFA goes to Washington

114

Vaccine Race

115

The Economic Impact of Coronavirus

116

The Problem with Palm Oil

117

The Boeing 737 Max

118

The Business Impact of Trump's Tariffs

119

Casual Dining Chains & Jamie's Italian

120

Amazon H2

121

Brexit Update

122

Sneakernomics

123

Commodity Activism

124

Ghosn is Gone

125

The Belt & Road Project

126

What's Cooking in the Meal Kit Industry?

127

Trans Mountain Pipeline Dispute

128

Fast Fashion

129

Fake News

130

Poland and the EU

131

Developments in Saudi Arabia

132

German Elections

133

The Opioid Crisis in America

134

The Federal Reserve System

135

Marvel Comics: a business comeback of superhero proportions

136

Venezuela: the economic impact of a political crisis

137

Canada's Budding Marijuana Industry

138

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

139

Global Counterfeiting

140

Alibaba: The World According to (Jack) Ma

141

The Climate Change Crisis: Big Business to the Rescue

142

White Gold: The International Ivory Trade

143

The Nintendo Story & Pokemon Go

144

Donald Trump: The Bankrupt Billionaire

145

The Troubles in Brazil

146

Millennials in the Workplace

147

U.S. - Cuba Trade Relations

148

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