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The Rest Is Money — 315 episodes

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312. What's missing from Healey's growth plan?

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311. Why is the US debt crisis a big problem for Burnham?

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310. Gordon Brown: ‘I’d tell Trump he’s unpopular’

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309. Why we’re wasting our time predicting the future of AI

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308. The 4 challenges (and the biggest opportunity) facing the new PM

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307. The world’s most influential economist: how we can deliver "worker-friendly AI"

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306. The world’s most influential economist: Tax wealth and break up big tech

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305. The Apprentice Unicorn - Euan Blair on rewiring investment and training

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304. Why Burnham’s best economic policy would be “do nothing”

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303. Why making schools truly comprehensive is vital for our economy

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302. Can the West bridge the gap with China, India and the BRICs+ nations?

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301. Why the US won't stop China in the AI race

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300. Does Burnham get AI?

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299. Trump’s new tariffs - can anyone win a trade war?

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298. Why Healey as Chancellor? And can he find the money?

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297. How do we reshape our workforce in the AI era?

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296. Gary Stevenson- how would a wealth tax help those on low incomes?

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295. Jim O’Neill – The man shaping Burnhamomics

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294. Gary Stevenson – Is being a city trader bad?

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293. A Nobel Prize winning view on wealth inequality

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292. The £6 trillion pot we should use to grow the economy

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291. Does Burnham have any wiggle room?

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290. Can Burnham’s ‘business friendly socialism’ grow the economy?

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289. Why we need fewer civil servants

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288. Which politician is the worst tax dodger?

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287. Dan Neidle: forget wealth taxes, do this instead

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286. Dan Neidle: Pubs don’t deserve a VAT cut

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285. Can Europe escape American tech dependency?

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284. Is it time to smash the economic consensus?

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283. Does the UK need to be rich?

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282. Are politicians living in a tax-and-spend dream world?

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281. How to tax billionaires

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280. Should the government set food prices?

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279. Why SMEs want more than verbal enthusiasm from politicians

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278. Can any Starmer rival rescue the economy?

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277. How to make green energy a vote winner

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276. Will bond market vigilantes see off Starmer’s rivals?

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275. The Debt Paradox: Britain’s Hidden Credit Crisis

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274. Would rejoining the EU be the best growth strategy?

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273. How angry are business leaders with the government?

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272. Is Anthropic holding businesses to ransom?

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271. Youth unemployment - a national emergency?

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270. AI minister: How we build a trillion dollar AI company

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269. Monzo founder: AI will kill income tax

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268. The price of financial hype

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267. Can AI save the public sector?

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266. Trump Turmoil: An investor's perspective

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265. Are we due another financial crisis?

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264. Why the chair of Iceland Foods is not worried about their energy bills

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263. Iran War: protecting the UK economy from the energy crisis

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262. Does the Chancellor have a growth plan at last?

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261. Dire straits: Should the Royal Navy end the Iran oil blockade?

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260. Iran War: why the poor will suffer

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259. BONUS: Trump's War - why it's making us poorer

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258. How AI changes everything we should teach kids

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257. Iran War: Are investors getting it wrong?

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256. Will Trump’s war on Iran sink markets and the global economy?

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255. Trump trade tariffs - who is calling the shots?

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254. The outsider’s edge: How Sir Michael Moritz built a billion-dollar empire

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253. The truth about immigration - who is coming and who is leaving?

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252. The £1 trillion war chest: why the UK is stronger than you think

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251. The man who rumbled Mandelson: Dan Neidle's Epstein files investigation

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250. Business Secretary Peter Kyle: being let down by Mandelson & the UK-China relationship

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249. ⁠Epstein, Mandelson & the system that failed survivors

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248. How Iran’s uprising has been driven by economic failure

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247. Sir Keir in China & will there be aftershocks from Japan’s bond quake?

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246. Why we need more businesses to go bust

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245. The TACO president - Why Trump Always Chickens Out

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244. Why Lord Frost wants a Thatcher revival

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243. Identity crisis: why the government can't make up its mind about Digital IDs

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242. Ignore the doomsayers - the UK is innovating

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241. Greenland’s magnetic attraction: why Trump wants it all for himself

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240. Levelling Up 2.0: What Actually Works for Regional Growth?

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239. 2026 Predictions: a bubble bursts, Starmer’s only hope & Trump’s vulnerability

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238. How to prepare the UK workforce when 3 million jobs are at risk

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237. The extraordinary story of Britain’s first tech titan

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236. What M&S can teach Starmer (Part 2)

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235. How M&S saw off the cyber criminals and its plan for the next 100 Years (Part 1)

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234. Is GB Energy Starmer’s missing growth plan?

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233. The Trump Doctrine: Why Europe Is Failing & Who Wins the Warner Bros Bid?

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232. How British AI is inventing new materials

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231. Can The NHS Afford The UK-US Pharma Deal?

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230. Dan Neidle on how Reeves’ tax reforms will work

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229. BUDGET BONUS: Did the Treasury Lie?

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228. BUDGET SPECIAL: Where's The Growth?

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227. How Economics Can Stop Us Making Stupid Choices

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226. Will Labour’s Mansion Tax Backfire?

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225. How Damaged Is Reeves By Budget Chaos?

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224. Would Ousting Starmer Risk Economic Meltdown?

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223. Is The AI Boom Like 1929 Or The Dot Com Bubble?

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222. The Four Budget Priorities For Rachel Reeves

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221. Why Reeves Should Put Up Income Tax

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220. How Do We Make Big Business Behave?

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219. When Do Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves?

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218. How Do We Get Off The Escalator Of Ever Rising Taxes?

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217. Is Reeves To Blame For The Budget Hole?

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216. What Are The Jobs Of The Future?

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215. How Near Is An AI Crash?

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214. Are Tory Cuts Credible?

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213. The Decline And Fall Of The London Stock Exchange

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212. Has Reeves Been Unlucky Or Unwise?

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211. How Should Reeves Fill The £30bn Hole?

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210. Can The Government Save The UK Car Industry From The Cyber Attack On JLR?

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209. Why We Can’t Abandon The World’s Poor

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208. Have We Just Surrendered Our Economic Independence To The US?

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207. What Can We Learn About Farage’s Finances From His Accounts?

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206. Will Starmer Sack Mandelson Over Epstein?

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205. Are Reform Looking For An Argentine Tango?

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204. Will The Late Late Budget Heal Or Harm?

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203. How To Beat Farage And The Populists

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202. What's The Cost Of Trump Controlling The Fed?

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201. Which Taxes Will Rachel Reeves Raise This Autumn?

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200. Should Asylum Seekers Be Given Jobs?

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199. When George Osborne Went After The Bankers, I Went To Prison

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198. The Trader Who Paid For The Financial Crisis

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197. How Close Is The UK To A Lethal Debt Spiral?

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196. Will Low Income Voters Ever Turn On Trump?

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195. Why The EU Accepted A Raw Deal With Trump

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194. How A £600bn 'Ghost Market’ Is Being Neglected

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193. How Labour Could Have Avoided Tax Rises

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192. Can We Cope With Trump’s 15% Permanent Global Tariff?

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191. Is The Government’s British Business Bank Bold Enough?

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190. Why The UK Lost Its Appetite For Risk

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189. What Would The Outgoing Boss Of The IFS Do If He Was Chancellor?

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188. How Politics is Bankrupting Britain

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187. Is It Time To Impose Capital Taxes On Our Homes?

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186. Was Reeves To Blame For The Welfare Debacle?

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185. Why Future Generations Face Disaster in Retirement

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184. Does The UK Need Rich Foreigners?

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183. Will Trump’s Bombing Lead To Oil Price Surge?

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182. Are Iran and Israel About To Trigger A Global Economic Crisis?

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181. What Are Kemi Badenoch’s Economics?

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180. What Are The Numbers Rachel Reeves Hid?

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179. The Ugly Side of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill

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178. Sadiq Khan: This Government Frustrates Me

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177. Are Food Giants The New Big Tobacco?

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176. Trump’s Tax Cuts: America’s Liz Truss Moment

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175. Does Trump Spell The End Of Net Zero?

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174. What Is Really Going On With Inflation

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173. Why Starmer Didn’t Do Enough On EU Trade

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172. Is The Treasury Striving For Mediocrity?

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171. Will Trump’s Tax Cuts Cause Soaring US Debt?

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170. Will Trump’s Deal With China Stick?

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169. How To Wean The UK Off Immigration

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168. Is Trump’s Deal Good for Britain?

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167. Should We Care That Indian Workers Won’t Pay National Insurance?

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166. How To Cut Energy Bills

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165. Trump’s Timebomb: The Warning No One Has Spotted

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164. The Great British Energy Crisis

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163. Trump Surrenders To China And The Fed

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162. The Health Gap: Fixing Inequality in the UK

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161. Trump Turmoil: Starmer Should Choose EU Over US

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160. Trump Turmoil: The Latest Act Of Self-Harm

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159. Trump Turmoil: It’s The Hope That Kills You

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158. Trump Turmoil: Starmer Takes Action

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157. Trump Turmoil: Never Underestimate China

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156. Trump Turmoil: A Pause Won’t Stop Uncertainty

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155. Trump Turmoil: The Tariffs Kick In

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154. Trump Turmoil: Why Billionaires Are Panicking

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153. Reform UK: What Would Farage’s Britain Look Like?

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152. Liberation Day: Will Trump’s Tariffs Kill Reeves’ Growth?

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151. Do the Tories have a new economic message?

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150. Exclusive: Rachel Reeves On Why Trump Won't Control Us

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149. Why Is Tech So Sexist?

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148. How Do You Decide Who Is Too Sick To Work?

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147. What’s Wrong With Labour’s Welfare Reforms?

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146. Does Trump Risk Sparking A Global Financial Crisis?

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145. Hoffman: Europe Is Regulating Itself Out Of The AI Race

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144. The European Silver Lining to Trump’s Global Gangsterism

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143. Was Starmer Right To Woo Trump?

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142. Are We In A Golden Era Of Corruption?

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141. Why Aren’t UK Pension Funds Backing Britain?

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140. How Do The Bank of England Really Make Their Decisions?

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139. Why Shopping Will Never Be The Same Again

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138. What is Elon Musk really up to?

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137. Trump’s Trade War: Winners, Losers and The Global Fallout

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136. Are Labour’s Growth Goals Meaningless?

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135. China: Business Partner Or Security Threat?

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134. Will Rachel Reeves’ New Found Optimism Bring Growth?

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133. Will Trump’s Chaos Strategy Work?

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132. Why Britain Isn’t A “Science Superpower”

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131. Why The Stats Behind The Budget Might Be Wrong

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130. The Brutal Truth Behind Britain's AI Gamble

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129. How Serious Is The UK’s Debt Mess?

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128. Will Starmer Stop Musk's Meddling?

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127. Is Trump’s Bark Worse Than His Bite?

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126. Why 2025 Will Be The Most Important Year Of Our Lives

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125. The Scandal Of Slum UK

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124. Can Labour Restore Public Trust in 2025?

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123. When Will The Next Financial Crisis Be?

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122. Google At A Crossroads

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121. The Man Most Feared By Putin: Part 2

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120. The Man Most Feared By Putin: Part 1

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119. Can Labour’s spending review really mend public services?

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118. Global Mayhem: Is The UK A Safe Bet?

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117. How Much Did Brexit Cost The UK?

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116. Are We Sacrificing Growth For Worker's Rights?

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115. Trump Could Kill The Dollar

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114. The End Of The G20?

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113. Dan Neidle: Labour Put Up The Wrong Taxes

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112. What Trump’s Economics Means For Us

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111. What Would Happen If We Didn't Tax Anyone?

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110. Will Trump Make Us Richer Or Poorer?

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109. How Can We Make Taxes Pay?

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108. Rachel Reeves Has Made An Important Start

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107. Rachel Reeves: “We Don’t Need To Come Back And Ask For More”

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106. How Much Pain Is Rachel Reeves Inflicting?

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105. What You Need To Know To Judge The Budget

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104. Martin Lewis: Are we better off under Labour?

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103. It’s Time To Live With Higher Inflation

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102. Anthony Scaramucci: The Truth About Trump’s Economic Madness

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101. How Rachel Reeves Will Re-Write Fiscal Rules

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100. John McDonnell's Alternative Autumn Budget

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99. How To Stop Big Tech Damaging Mental Health

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98.⁠ ⁠Why Reeves Is Struggling To Find Taxes

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97. The Economics of Happiness

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96. Will The Autumn Budget Cure Our Blues?

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95. The Children's Homes Scandal: Part Two

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94. How To Fix Education

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93. The Children's Homes Scandal

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92. Are Labour’s economic plans in trouble?

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91. Should everyone get free money?

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90. How Billionaires Think

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89. Why are so many young people struggling to get a job?

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88. Why are Labour drip-feeding us the bad news?

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87. Will Labour Scrap Council Tax?

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86. The 'Capitalist Lie': who's really in control?

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85. The most important Industrial Revolution in history

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84. Why inflation hits the poorest hardest

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83. Do the UK riots benefit Elon Musk?

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82. Stock market turmoil: is it time to panic?

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81. Can Starmer’s mission-led government fix the economy?

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80.⁠ ⁠Which taxes will Rachel Reeves raise?

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79.⁠ ⁠The Plan To Get Britain Back To Work

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78. What impact would another Trump presidency have on the UK?

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77. What do small businesses think about the new worker’s rights?

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76. Is Labour's King's Speech bold enough?

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75.⁠ ⁠Bank of England Economist: Interest rates must be cut

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74. Labour’s first economic move in government

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73. What will Keir Starmer do now?

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72. Polling Day Special: What happens if Labour fail?

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71.⁠ ⁠How could our money be better spent within the NHS?

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70.⁠ ⁠What’s Labour’s plan for growth?

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69. Does debt really matter?

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68. Election Tax Special: What do political parties want to do with your money?

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67. The Labour Manifesto: Is it really pro-business?

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66.⁠ ⁠The Conservative Manifesto: what would they do with your money?

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65. Are climate boycotts doing more harm than good?

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64. How Labour could end the strikes with Mick Lynch

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63. Will Labour’s Plan To ‘Make Work Pay’ Actually Work?

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62. Is there any money left?

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61. Is it time for a wealth tax?

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60. The economics behind Sunak’s general election gamble with Torsten Bell

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59. Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist: Are we too ideological about privatisation?

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58. Is ‘sick note culture’ real? Why are living standards still stagnating? Will the UK always be a global economic power?

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57. How to fix UK growth, why economists fail, and restructuring our economic institutions - Andy Haldane

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56. Brexit benefits, accepting failure, and working in James Bond's office - Dominic Johnson: Minister for Investment

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55. Liz Truss: The Finale (Part 5)

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54. The Liz Truss Interview: Who Killed Liz Truss? (Part 4)

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53. Founding a bank, fighting for financial justice, and tackling loan sharks - Dave Fishwick

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52. When privatisation fails: Why is the water industry drowning in debt?

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51. Should businesses be owned by employees? - Dame Sharon White

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50. How they avoid tax and get away with it

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49. Who Killed Liz Truss? Death on the Square Mile (Part 3)

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48. Who Killed Liz Truss? Britain on the Brink (Part 2)

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47. Who Killed Liz Truss? Countdown to Calamity (Part 1)

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46. The end of the gig economy’s golden era

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45. Tom Kerridge: How to start a restaurant empire, tackling food poverty, and risking bankruptcy to build a business

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44. Neuralink: Would you let Elon Musk put a chip in your brain?

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43. Billionaire or bust? Donald Trump's newfound 'fortune'

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42. Mariana Mazzucato: How consulting firms weaken business, the illusion of ‘growth’, and public vs private innovation

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41. Ban in the USA: Is TikTok's time up?

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40. Should cannabis be legalised? What would happen if the government cancelled its debt? Are vets ripping us off?

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39. Norway vs Saudi Arabia: Should Britain have a sovereign wealth fund?

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38. The plan to turbocharge the British stock market

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37. What Jeremy Hunt’s Budget really means

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36. Why should you employ ex-offenders? James Timpson on the family dynasty, recruiting from prisons, and regenerating the high street

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35. Could small businesses be the key to the country's prosperity?

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34. Why do companies buy back their own shares? Can high inflation actually be good for an economy? Why do so few women invest?

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33. The real story behind the Post Office's fight with Kemi Badenoch

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32. Dame Irene Hays: Saving Thomas Cook, owning Sunderland AFC, and using AI in business

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31. Artificial Intelligence: Britain's battle with the future

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30. How to solve the housing crisis

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29. Musk vs Zuckerberg: A Tale of Two Tech Titans

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28.⁠ ⁠Are the Tories bad for business? Richard Walker on leaving the Tory party, running Iceland, and emerging from his dad’s shadow

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27. Jeremy Hunt vs the IMF, the end of working from home, and Peston’s deepfake scam

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26.⁠ ⁠Britain’s energy kraken: Greg Jackson on Octopus, rethinking renewables and the new age of energy technology

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25. Boeing’s turbulent future, the gamification of fitness, and the dilemma of MPs as landlords

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24. A wave of crisis in the Red Sea, Fujitsu's next move, and a Las Vegas Sphere in Middlesbrough?

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23. Demystifying Davos: Debauched parties, billionaire backroom deals, and the next industrial revolution

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22.⁠ ⁠The cost of the Post Office scandal, trouble at Apple, and how hard is it to buy a home?

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21. Jeremy Hunt, Chancellor of the Exchequer

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20. Zombie companies & freeports: why is Britain so unproductive?

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19. Empire of chocolate, the man behind Shein, and Labour's economic vision for Britain

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18. How Ryanair conquered Europe, inflation elation, and the future of Boots

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17. Greenwashing, Man Utd rumours, and how would a wealth tax work?

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16. Billionaire heirs, the money behind football, and the future of the Body Shop

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Introducing... The Rest Is Entertainment

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15. Is the Bank of England fit for purpose?

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14. Tax Cuts, OpenAI & Adidas' expensive mistake

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13. Inflation, Dating Apps & The Greensill Scandal

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12. FTX & WeWork: It’s The Hype That Kills You

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11. Taylor Swift's Billion Dollar Business

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Bust? (Extract)

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10. The AI Industrial Revolution

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9. How Microsoft won the battle for Call of Duty

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8. The 'Iron Chancellor' and her plan for Britain

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7. The Daily Mail, Saudi Arabia, or Boris Johnson: Who's going to buy The Daily Telegraph?

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6. The truth behind Murdoch's succession

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5. SUNAK VS NET ZERO

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4. What Liz Truss got right

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3. A Battle for the Heart of the Music Industry

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2. The drug behind Europe's most valuable company

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1. From the High Street to the City: Britain on the brink

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