S6 Ep1: Who pays for your credit card rewards?
Credit cards that offer cashback or rewards are increasingly popular. Are you doing better or worse as a result? And how big is the financial difference between all the winners and losers? Andrea Pres...
20 Jan 202329min
S5 Ep54: Understanding US inflation
Can we explain what happened to inflation in the US in 2022, and what will happen next? Larry Ball and Daniel Leigh tell Tim Phillips why it stayed high and when it may fall.
9 Des 202213min
S5 Ep53: Do content moderation laws work?
Germany’s NetzDG Law has given social media companies the responsibility for removing toxic content from their platforms. Can a law to mandate content moderation curb hate speech and, if it does, does...
2 Des 202217min
S5 Ep52: How empires rise, and how they fall
In the industrial age many new empires quickly rose and eventually fell. Kerem Cosar and Roberto Bonfatti tell Tim Phillips how important shifting patterns of trade have been in this process.
25 Nov 202215min
S5 Ep51: The great carbon arbitrage
What is the net benefit of phasing out coal and replacing it with renewables? $85 trillion, according to a new calculation. Alissa Kleinnijenhuis and Patrick Bolton tell Tim Phillips how they estimate...
18 Nov 202228min
S5 Ep50: How does trade policy affect competition?
How does a bilateral trade agreement affect the amount of competition in both countries? New data casts doubt on the conclusions that trade economists have drawn in the past, Meredith Crowley tells Ti...
11 Nov 202221min
S5 Ep49: How did inflation get so high?
Ricardo Reis tells Tim Phillips why many advanced economies ended up with inflation levels that we haven’t seen for a generation. Did policymakers make mistakes, or do we need to change the entire pol...
4 Nov 202219min
S5 Ep48: Climate and debt
Mitigating and adapting to climate change is economically rational. But it is also expensive, it’s not clear how the cost should be financed, or which countries or actors assume the burden. The 25th G...
28 Okt 202223min
