Disposable Jobs
A couple of years ago, when warning of the need to fight inflation, Jerome Powell, Governor of the US Federal Reserve says interest rate would rise and jobs might disappear. Yet, interest rates have r...
4 Sep 202437min
The Old Age Liability
Some call it the silver tsunami. The wave of old people putting pressure on government budgets. And, as baby boomers retire and young people produce less and less children, western populations will co...
28 Aug 202439min
Could stubborn central banks drive us to debt deflation?
The last time interest rates were this high they came down rather fast. This time central bankers are determined to manage a slow unwind and deliver a return to growth without wreaking havoc on the ec...
21 Aug 202435min
It’s not complicated! Doyne Farmer on a Better Economics for a Better World
Complex systems don’t have to be complicated to provided deep insights into the real world. That’s the view of Doyne Farmer, special guest on this week’s podcast. It’s an approach he shares to economi...
14 Aug 202454min
Debt, savings and investments – how they really work
It’s curious isn’t it how we talk about household savings, rather than net debt. Many people do have money squirreled away in savings accounts, for a rainy day. That rainy day comes when hey lose a jo...
7 Aug 202437min
Including energy in economic models. It doesn’t have to be that difficult.
So, if economics is all about the allocation of scarce resources, isn’t energy the most scarce resource? And yet its not really included in any economic models. We look at labour and capital as the dr...
31 Jul 202437min
Our obsession with ownership
We are obsessed with the need to own things, not least, our homes. But for younger people that is increasingly becoming a pipedream, unless they are lucky enough to gain a healthy inheritance. Even th...
24 Jul 202439min
Too big for their boots? Are bigger companies slowing the economy.
The global share market has always been dominated by the US, now we’re seeing a number share of very large tech companies claiming a larger slice of that pie. Even though they are trading with price t...
17 Jul 202437min
