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Dr Lee Jones is a Professor of Political Economy & International Relations at the Queen Mary University of London. Dr Jones and I had a great conversation about China, covid policy, and making the bes...

17 Nov 20211h 10min

Professor John Turner and Dr William Quinn of Queen's University Belfast were my guests on today's show. They are the authors of the recent book, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, ...

11 Nov 20211h 4min

Have you ever wondered how a government budget works? How borrowing works? Whether the magic money tree really exists? Positive Money are a group hoping to educate people on how a sovereign government...

10 Nov 20211h 9min

Julian Winkler is the co-author of the paper "Reddit’s self-organised bull runs: Social contagion and asset prices". The paper makes a "theoretical case for how ‘hype’ among retail investors can drive...

5 Nov 202149min

I had Kirby Sommers back on my show to talk all about the Prince Andrew lawsuit vs Virginia Giuffre. She has sued him for sexual allegations dating back to the early 2000s when she was being held as a...

4 Nov 20211h 9min

Steve Topple is a journalist at the Canary who specialises in issues surrounding disability, health, housing, class, economics and government. ‘Mr Topple’ is also now making waves as an innovative mus...

2 Nov 20211h 27min

Joël Valenzuela has been living without a banked account (or "unbanked") since 2016. He's began with Bitcoin, but when that became too expensive he began transacting with Dash instead and now he actua...

28 Okt 20211h 23min

Why Nations Fail is one of the best books I have read all year. Authors Acemoglu and Robinson insist that "development differences across countries are exclusively due to differences in political and ...

27 Okt 202157min