Funding the Future

Feb 02 2025 250 ep. 7 mins 40
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Richard Murphy and occasional friends talking about everything you need to know to understand the economy, tax, finance and how we fund our future.

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Do young people really want a dictatorship in the UK?

Feb 02 2025 9 mins  
Young people are giving up on democracy because our politicians are giving up on them. But it’s not democracy that’s at fault – it is our politicians who are. We need a politics that delivers for young people, or the future is very bleak.

Is Trump threatening development?

Feb 01 2025 7 mins  
The world’s developing countries mainly owe their debts in dollars. Trump is, however, making it harder for them to earn dollars, and is trying to inflate the dollar’s value. The result will be massive poverty.

How do we get competent politicians?

Jan 31 2025 5 mins  
Anyone can become an MP. No training is required, and them they set the rules for everyone else. That’s absurd. All prospective parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence.

Will uninsurability crash the housing market?

Jan 31 2025 7 mins  
Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable. Will this crash the housing market? There are strong signs it will, unless the government takes action.

DeepSeek is shaking up US capitalism

Jan 29 2025 8 mins  
The DeepSeek AI model challenges US capitalism at its very core – suggesting its whole model of creating value for a few by extracting maximum revenues from people as a result of the abuse of monopoly power might have to end.

People want better government

Jan 28 2025 12 mins  
Rachel Reeves thinks people want deregulation, growth and big infrastructure from government, She’s wrong. They want government that works, better jobs and lower interest rates.

Charter cities would destroy the UK

Jan 27 2025 9 mins  
Charter cities are a right-wing fantasy. They’re being prompted by the same people who gave us the economics of Liz Truss. And they’d be even more harmful than she was.

Why are consumers worried?

Jan 26 2025 7 mins  
UK consumers think there’s trouble ahead and are cutting their spending as a result. That’s the combined fault of the Bank of England and Rachel Reeves, and no one else but them can put matters right.

Is Bitcoin the new gold?

Jan 25 2025 7 mins  
People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold. It isn’t. It is nothing like gold. But more than that we don’t need to be on the gold standard ever again. It destroyed the world economy.

Is Starmer worse than Truss?

Jan 24 2025 6 mins  
Labour is sinking so fast in my estimation that I now think it could already be worse than the government of Liz Truss, and could be very much worse soon.