The Rest Is Money

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  • 35 minutes 43 seconds
    140. How Do The Bank of England Really Make Their Decisions?

    Robert and Steph discuss why inflation won’t disappear but is no worse than feared, how AI is both replacing humans and making some more productive according to Anthropic’s new data and what’s really motivating Trump in his rapprochement with Putin.


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    Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell

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    Head of Content: Tom Whiter

    Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport

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    20 February 2025, 12:00 am
  • 44 minutes 1 second
    139. Why Shopping Will Never Be The Same Again

    Robert and Steph find out how AI will radically change how people will shop in the future. Retail consultant Kate Ancketill explains how every cursor movement and click is being analysed to provide retailers with ways to predict, and therefore manipulate, how we buy. All that plus we chat about the role of AI assistants, celeb avatars, and how retailers are tackling theft and low consumer confidence.


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    17 February 2025, 12:00 am
  • 43 minutes 23 seconds
    138. What is Elon Musk really up to?

    As Musk continues his hostile takeover of the US government, Robert and Steph look at the impact his dramatic overhaul is having. It sounds like chaos but could it pave the way for a more radical approach to public finances in the UK? Plus we discuss what Musk wants from OpenAI. And whether all this drama will end with a spectacular Trump/Musk fallout. Or have they both got too much to lose?


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    13 February 2025, 1:37 am
  • 42 minutes 13 seconds
    137. Trump’s Trade War: Winners, Losers and The Global Fallout

    Robert and Steph catch up after a dramatic week of Trump's trade tariffs and consider their ripple effects across the globe. Will consumers pay the price for an "America-first agenda"? And, is there any genius in Trump sowing economic uncertainty? Also, will the Bank of England’s “careful and gradual” approach to cutting interest rates to 4.5%, go far enough?  


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    10 February 2025, 12:10 am
  • 48 minutes 1 second
    136. Are Labour’s Growth Goals Meaningless?

    Steph and Robert are joined by Praful Nargund, founder of the Good Growth Foundation, and Chris Curtis, MP for Milton Keynes North, to speak about Rachel Reeves’s growth targets. They consider what growth actually means to everyday people, whether it’s felt evenly, or if Labour should be prioritising something else altogether.


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    6 February 2025, 12:00 am
  • 38 minutes 13 seconds
    135. China: Business Partner Or Security Threat?

    Steph and Gordon Corera, host of The Rest Is Classified and the BBC’s Security Correspondent, discuss the security risks posed to the UK by Rachel Reeves’ new ploy to secure Chinese investment. Also, how Huawei was replaced by Tik Tok, and then DeepSeek, as the latest digital threat to the West and why an era of subtle ‘cognitive warfare’ has been ushered in by social media.


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    3 February 2025, 12:00 am
  • 33 minutes 53 seconds
    134. Will Rachel Reeves’ New Found Optimism Bring Growth?

    Robert and Steph catch up after Rachel Reeves’ attempt to bring back confidence in the UK economy. With plans for a third runway at Heathrow, a corridor of investment between Cambridge and Oxford as well as money for projects in places like Manchester and Wrexham, we discuss the pros and cons. And for a change it’s Steph who takes on the role of Eeyore.


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    30 January 2025, 12:00 am
  • 37 minutes 52 seconds
    133. Will Trump’s Chaos Strategy Work?

    Steph and Robert catch up on Trump’s first week back in office. Looking at the likely economic impact of his decisions on mass deportation, the environment, energy and prices. As well as what wasn’t said on things like trade tariffs with China. Plus with Rachel Reeves hoping to convince us she’s got a plan for growth this week, we discuss whether a third runaway at Heathrow is going to cut it. And why we’re in an ugly competition. Good news though: we’re not the ugliest.


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    27 January 2025, 12:00 am
  • 52 minutes 57 seconds
    132. Why Britain Isn’t A “Science Superpower”

    Steph and Robert speak to Sir Paul Nurse - Nobel Prize winning cell biologist and Director of the Francis Crick Institute - about how science funding needs to change, why the UK is failing to lure global talent, how we scrub up against the other OECD countries in terms of research and development and how - despite being a geneticist - it took him 55 years to discover who his biological parents were.


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    23 January 2025, 12:00 am
  • 49 minutes 53 seconds
    131. Why The Stats Behind The Budget Might Be Wrong

    The founder of the OBR and now boss of all official statistics Robert Chote explains to Steph and Robert why the UK’s unemployment numbers are so unreliable and why the chancellor should be braver and not obsessively try to meet her fiscal rules at all times.


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    20 January 2025, 12:00 am
  • 51 minutes 46 seconds
    130. The Brutal Truth Behind Britain's AI Gamble

    Robert and Steph are joined by Peter Kyle, the Science and Tech Secretary of State, to evaluate whether the prime minister’s plan to turn the UK into an AI world leader, while simultaneously modernising public services and making us richer, has any chance of succeeding.


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    16 January 2025, 12:00 am
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