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The Economics Show — 119 episodes
Will AI help the Fed conquer inflation? With Austan Goolsbee
How will falling fertility rates hurt the economy? With Melissa Kearney
Will energy security fears change the global energy market? With Daniel Yergin
Introducing: The Story of Money
Will the energy shock change global trade imbalances? With Brad Setser
How long will the Iran energy shock last? With Chris Giles
Economic warfare: lessons from history, with Mark Harrison
The global economy is Iran’s hostage. Can it be released? With Edward Fishman
Lessons from China’s industrial dominance, with Kyle Chan
Introducing Untold: Opus Dei
Is AI (finally) making us more productive? With John Burn-Murdoch and Sarah O’Connor
Are investors getting the Iran conflict wrong? With Robin Brooks
Could common debt make the EU stronger? With Carlos Cuerpo
Trump’s tariffs are not dead yet, with Michael Froman
What did ‘Nudge’ get wrong? With Nick Chater
How China is fighting ‘involution’, with Yanmei Xie
What an economist eats for lunch (in 2026), with Tyler Cowen
How big a deal is the EU-India trade agreement? With Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki and Ajay Srivastava
The economy in 2026: What risks lie ahead? With Gita Gopinath
How the Fed fights back, with Don Kohn
How bad is America’s affordability crisis? With Mechele Dickerson
Behind The Money: How First Brands Group collapsed
Martin Wolf speaks to Christine Lagarde: Europe’s ‘existential crisis’
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Power, plutocracy and political economy
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: America vs the world
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Maga man and Mamdani
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Trump’s ‘vibecession’
Coming soon: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: One year of Trump
Did globalisation kill neoliberalism? With Branko Milanović
Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death
The limits of monetary policy, with Agustín Carstens
What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler
Are Trump’s tariffs legal? With Jennifer Hillman
How to kickstart the UK economy. With Tim Leunig
Introducing Untold: Toxic Legacy
What’s up with the US economy? With Austan Goolsbee
The economics of birth control. With Martha Bailey
How to get immigration right. With Adam Ozimek
China’s economy vs the world. With Michael Pettis
The ugly truth about Trump’s ‘beautiful tariffs’. With Martha Gimbel
China and the limits of its ‘engineering state’. With Dan Wang
Fed independence? Here’s why you should worry. With Peter Conti-Brown
After globalisation: What's next for a fractured world? With Neil Shearing
How Asia is coping with Trump’s tariffs. With Mari Pangestu
Why Russia’s wartime economy is starting to crack, with Elina Ribakova
Introducing the Rachman Review: Is the US heading for a debt crisis?
Can we still trust US economic data? With Erica Groshen
Development funding is in crisis. What now? With Mark Suzman
Has Argentina’s Milei proved his critics wrong? With Alejandro Werner
Can Europe afford to rearm itself? With Jeromin Zettelmeyer
What Trump’s tariffs deadline has (not) achieved, with Dmitry Grozoubinski
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: your questions answered
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: The future of the postwar system
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: AI hype vs reality
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: The economy in an uncertain world
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: how the old economic order fell out of favour
The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: the crisis of trust
Coming soon: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange
How economics wins wars, with Duncan Weldon
What does China want from the US? With Jay Shambaugh
How should central banks respond to US tariffs?
Bonus: Globalisation can be slowed, but not stopped
Bill Gates: how international development can survive the Trump presidency
Martin Wolf talks to Kenneth Rogoff: Trump is accelerating the dollar’s decline
Should we be optimistic about the US economy? With Michael Strain
Martin Wolf talks to David Autor: could AI be a bigger threat to US jobs than China?
Martin Wolf talks to Mervyn King: why central banks got inflation wrong
Are US tariffs just the beginning? With Abraham Newman
Can Germany escape its economic doldrums? With Ulrike Malmendier
How big a fiscal hole is the British government in? With Paul Johnson
Why do companies make terrible decisions? With Dan Davies
Martin Wolf talks to Keyu Jin: Has China’s economy run out of gas?
Martin Wolf talks to Adair Turner: Can the world decarbonise fast enough?
What future for aid and development? With Minouche Shafik
Martin Wolf talks to Richard Baldwin: What’s the future of global trade?
Why are birth rates falling? With Alice Evans
The real Russian economy. With Sergei Guriev
Is innovation slowing down? With Matt Clancy
Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani Rodrik
Can the WTO stay relevant? With Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Martin Wolf talks to Arvind Subramanian: India, the next economic superpower?
Update from Davos: Can industrial policy really work? With Beata Javorcik
Trump and the history of tariffs. With Doug Irwin
Martin Wolf speaks to Andrew J Scott: Can societies age gracefully?
Martin Wolf interviews Mariana Mazzucato: Can the state innovate?
Martin Wolf interviews Christine Lagarde: Whither Europe?
Martin Wolf interviews Lant Pritchett: Is mass immigration inevitable?
Martin Wolf interviews Larry Summers: Is Trump a threat to the US economy?
Is the Eurozone in trouble? With Philip Lane
What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? With Sam Bowman
Why is Britain’s government so inefficient? With Jeremy Hunt
Would Trump’s tariffs really be that bad? With Kimberly Clausing
What does a second Trump presidency mean for immigration? With Michael Clemens
How to tax the top 1% with Natasha Sarin
The economics of research and development. With Heidi Williams
What is Kamalanomics? With James Politi
What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu
Why even a PhD isn’t enough to erase the effects of class, with Anna Stansbury
How to cut government debt, with Robin Wigglesworth
What would Trump do on trade? With Alan Beattie
Is this a winning US economy for the Democrats? With Jared Bernstein
Do price controls really help with inflation? With Isabella Weber
Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu
Who is winning the chip wars? With Chris Miller
How much cash would it take to quit your job? With Pilita Clark and Mouhcine Guettabi
The case for holding rates, with Catherine Mann
Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles
What happens when manufacturing goes away? With Amy Goldstein
What does the US get wrong about China? With Adam Posen
Have we reached the limits of monetary policy? With Hyun Song Shin
What’s wrong with economics? With Angus Deaton
Does the economy still matter for elections? With John Burn-Murdoch
Does pay transparency work? With Zoe Cullen and Pilita Clark
Are we in for a hard landing? With Olivier Blanchard
Thinking about the global economy with Martin Wolf
Are we getting inflation right? With Neel Kashkari
The Economics of Parenting, with Emily Oster
Has the US finally borrowed too much? With Jason Furman
Introducing: The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes