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This episode is all about bitcoin. Will it be the currency of the future? Who’s trying to capitalise on the legal loopholes of cryptocurrencies? And is it possible to make mining them more green.
The financial services industry is nothing more than gambling, dressed up in the ‘professional’ clothing of business.
Economists try to create and use maps to navigate the world of human choices. But in some ways, these maps are limited.
Is brand awareness enough when the ads make you want to switch channel?
Britain’s finance minister delivers his first Spring Statement hot on the heels of some rather good economic news.
From the outside, it might look like another case of a pension black hole problem hitting another UK institution. Not so.
Corruption has gotten so bad in Nigeria that animals are getting in on the act.
The EU has ruled out any cherry picking from the UK for things like single market access for financial services.
Both the Northern League party and Five Star Movement have a very expensive shopping list for extra spending, with little detail on how to fund these policies.
Big new accountancy survey highlights the limitations in UK government’s approach to pay gap reporting.
We know from every previous wave of feminist activism that some men fear loss of status and power, two things manifest in work and pay.
The clothing market for men over 55 is growing fast with the population. But who is designing their clothes?
More than 80% of UK households use gas to heat their homes so the industry has to handle huge swings in demand.
Artificial intelligence is likely to reinforce or even amplify gender inequality because the data used to train machines is biased.
Options to avoid a hard border are on the table, but they remain unpalatable to Theresa May’s government.
‘Parasitic’ or copycat brands which mimic famous names are creating a market place of their own but they are treading on thin ice when it comes to copyright and intellectual property law.
By the end of this century the world’s population will have increased by half, creating a housing problem that needs to be solved now.
Tax policy favours machines over workers. Here’s how to change it.
E-commerce videos are a precision advertising tool which could put the nail in the coffin of traditional television adverts.
The Taylor Review and the subsequent UK government’s response do a bad job of proposing solutions.
Only half of disabled people are in work, despite high rates of employment across the population as a whole.
Earth has limited resources, so we can’t keep using them up. We need to look post-growth.
Leaving the EU single market and customs union cannot be compensated for by free trade agreements with other countries.