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The dark side of technology - from tech evangelist Joan Mulvihill

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  • How to stop Farage from being the next UK Prime Minister

    29:31|
    Could 2025 be the year of peak populism? The year of 'the great awakening' of normal people?The MAGAisation of corporate America: something that is already looking like overreach and is sewing the seeds of its own destruction.Radical delivery is now demanded: policies to make things better - at least to make things work again. Spain is giving it a go with some radical proposals to solve its housing crisis.Do your mental health a favour: get off Twitter and Facebook
  • The age of stupid? Or will financial markets impose sanity?

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    Economists have sung the praises of free trade for centuries. But nobody that matters believes any longer that free trade is good. The new religion has taken us into the unknown. Or perhaps not: the known unknown is a question. What happens when really stupid people run the world?What's the difference between Trump's threats of military force and Putin's similar remarks pre-invasion?Free trade laid the basis for post WW2 prosperity. On average we became a lot better off. But some people did not. Free trade's dirty secret is that it creates both winners and losers. Economists have been frightened to talk about the losers, partly through a disgraceful lack of interest but also because of a key belief. Give a bad or thick politician the slightest excuse to become full-on protectionist and they will grab it with both hands. They will adopt policies that look superficially plausible but harm almost everyone. Only the plutocracy wins.Over in the UK, things are going from bad to worse. The stark conclusion from the bond market crash: the government has run out of money. Or, at the very least, easy money. The Starmer-Reeves administration risks failure.
  • Can the EU survive Trump?

    30:06|
  • Musk is winning in Washington, Farage is winning in the UK

    37:14|
    The UK's Labour government has already had to 'reset' it's goals. Nigel Farage is the big winner from Keir Starmer's incompetence.In the US, it looks increasingly like Elon Musk has Trump's ear. For now, at least
  • 'House prices 10% over-valued". What does this mean? Anything?

    28:39|
    House prices, latest data and interest rates