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IFS Zooms In: The Economy — 190 episodes
The tax and spending choices facing Andy Burnham
Will devolution solve the UK’s economic woes?
The inequality of 'good jobs'
Why is the UK so geographically unequal?
What does Britain think about inequality?
How unequal is Britain?
The tough fiscal reality facing the UK government
Why is UK electricity so expensive?
What do councils actually do?
The tough choices facing Wales’s next government
Why Scotland’s next government faces tough choices
Will everyone have to work until they are 67?
Are pensioners richer than everyone else?
The Spring Forecast explained
How to fix the fiscal rules
Are Plan 2 student loans 'unfair'?
Did inflation cause the cost of living crisis?
Does the minimum wage cost jobs?
Why isn’t the NHS improving faster?
What really matters for the UK economy in 2026
Tax changes in the Budget
The Autumn Budget explained
How could the Chancellor cut spending?
Is the UK in hock to the bond market?
How could the Chancellor raise more tax?
How to fix VAT
How to fix property taxes
How to fix wealth taxes
How to fix income tax
The Budget Dilemma: Tax Rises or Spending Cuts?
Should Labour scrap the two-child limit?
Should the middle class get benefits?
Why is defence spending rising?
Children and young people: your questions answered | Are the kids OK? #5
What’s happening to families in the UK? | Are the kids OK? #4
Is further education treated as second class? | Are the kids OK? #3
Are England's schools working? | Are the kids OK? #2
Are Britain’s youngest children getting the best start? | Are the kids OK? #1
What are the big threats to public finances?
One year of Labour government: Is mission-driven politics really happening?
Paul Johnson’s final episode: big challenges ahead for the UK economy
How to fix UK pensions?
The policy that changed childhood in the UK
What’s gone wrong in the Crown Courts?
Spending Review 2025: What it means and why it matters
Trade Wars: The end of globalisation?
Why is the government reforming health-related benefits?
What's the future of corporation tax?
Spring Statement 2025
The Schools Bill
Family values: inheritance, inequality and social mobility
How important is the OBR forecast?
Do tariffs work?
How is tax damaging the housing market?
Why did the French budget fail to pass?
How can we make government more productive?
Inheritance tax rises and the Budget: who's affected?
How big are the UK's demographic challenges?
What does the Budget mean for the UK?
LIVE: How can Rachel Reeves make her first Budget a success?
What options does Rachel Reeves have for the Budget?
Should the Chancellor raise capital gains tax?
How can government reduce child poverty?
Are people saving enough into their pensions?
The big challenges facing the benefits system
The Chancellor's options for raising taxes
Why are universities in financial trouble?
Can the new government fix the NHS?
Is Labour's inheritance really worse than expected?
What is Labour's economic strategy?
ELECTION SPECIAL: Your questions answered
ELECTION SPECIAL: The big issues politicians haven't spoken about
ELECTION SPECIAL: Has 'levelling up' worked?
ELECTION SPECIAL: The Reform UK and Green Party manifestos explained
ELECTION SPECIAL: The Labour manifesto explained
ELECTION SPECIAL: The Conservative manifesto explained
ELECTION SPECIAL: The government's record on tax
ELECTION SPECIAL: The 'conspiracy of silence' on the economy
ELECTION SPECIAL: The UK economy since 2008
ELECTION SPECIAL: What you need to know
How to grow the economy
The £600 billion problem awaiting the next government
Should we worry about government debt?
Spring Budget 2024: What you need to know
The NHS waiting list: when will it come down?
Are councils in crisis?
How to fix our irrational income tax system
The economic stories that will shape 2024
The future of the state pension
Why we need to reform inheritance tax
The Autumn Statement explained
Cake or biscuit? The UK's byzantine VAT system explained
The Expert Factor: What next for Net Zero?
The Expert Factor: What can be done to fix standards in public life?
The Expert Factor: Why is the UK so bad at infrastructure?
The Expert Factor: Is there any money left?
The economic picture facing the Chancellor
An honest conversation about net zero
The Expert Factor: What is Britain’s place in the world?
The Expert Factor: What is the Point of Party Conferences?
The materials that shape our economy
Big firm, little firm: are differences between companies driving inequality and holding back growth?
Still a man’s world? Gender inequalities, parenthood and the workplace
Levelling Up: Is inequality between places Britain’s biggest problem?
When and why should we care about inequality?
COMING SOON: IFS Zooms In: Inequality
HIGHLIGHT: The future of public sector pensions
The economics of immigration
Work from home: what does the future look like?
What's wrong with inflation?
Why politicians need to think long-term about pensions
The stealth tax rise
The Spring Budget Explained
Are high energy prices here to stay?
How to tax the rich?
The state of the NHS
Pandemics, recessions and mental health: young people and jobs in 2023
Strikes, Budgets, Brexit and elections: a look ahead to 2023
Are we in a new era of austerity?
What we owe each other: a new social contract
Why are older workers leaving the workforce?
The challenges facing the Chancellor
Benefits, inflation and redistribution
Will public sector workers get a pay rise?
The challenges facing the new Prime Minister
The future of public sector pensions
How can we fix the childcare system?
HIGHLIGHT: The productivity problem
How should the government tax electric cars?
The future of student loans
HIGHLIGHT: How should the government influence what we eat?
How should we tax multinational corporations?
Spring Statement: inflation, living standards and uncertainty
Is the UK spending enough on defence?
Everything you need to know about National Insurance
Should people be saving more for retirement?
What should the government do about rising energy prices?
What you should be paying attention to in 2022
Has globalisation deepened inequality?
The common good after Covid
Can carbon taxes get us to net zero?
How should the government influence what we eat?
SPECIAL: What should the Chancellor consider in his autumn budget?
Job vacancies, labour shortages and a 'high-wage economy'
How to fix the education system
Social care: what happens now?
HIGHLIGHT: When and how to raise taxes?
HIGHLIGHT: The state of social mobility
HIGHLIGHT: Investment, infrastructure and levelling up
How to reform - and fund - social care?
Behind the scenes at HM Treasury
Location, location, location: how to reform council tax?
Can the NHS recover from COVID?
Are too many people going to university?
Has COVID transformed the labour market?
Are business rates killing the high street?
HIGHLIGHT: Geographical inequalities in the UK
The productivity problem
Universal Credit: The future of benefits?
Budget 2021: The road to recovery?
Catching up on lost learning
The economics of net zero
The state of inequality with Sir Angus Deaton
SPECIAL: Making sense of 2020
What's going on with Brexit?
Prices in a crisis
What’s happened to benefits through the pandemic?
What's happening with government debt?
Counting the cost of COVID-19
How is coronavirus affecting older workers?
University Challenge: COVID-19 and higher education
Moving on up: the state of social mobility
Taxing times ahead? When and how to raise taxes
Childcare during the pandemic
What to expect when schools reopen?
A Level playing field? Exam results during the pandemic
The potential consequences of Brexit
Catching up or falling behind? Geographical inequalities in the UK
Keeping it in the family: inheritances and inequality
Have the Chancellor's policies been stimulating enough?
Investment, infrastructure and levelling up
Incomes before, during and after the pandemic
The long shadow of Covid-19 on the economy and the public finances
COVID-19: Are people in some parts of England more 'vulnerable' than others?
The challenges facing further and higher education
The long-run effects on health and healthcare
Who's looking after the kids?
Getting people back into work
The unequal effects of the pandemic
Is the government doing enough to support workers during the pandemic?