Does money really make the world go round? Economics, business and finance have long been subjects we leave to the stock brokers, hedge fund managers and business school professors who spend their lives obsessing over them - but there’s no reason we shouldn’t discuss ‘money’ in the same way we talk about sport and TV. In The Rest Is Money, business correspondent and broadcaster Steph McGovern is joined by old friend and economics expert Robert Peston to explore everything we need to know about the issues that affect us in our everyday lives: how will AI affect your job and our economic prospects? Are we stuck with higher inflation for years to come? Why are wealthy nations like Saudi Arabia buying up sport? Steph and Robert will decode all the business jargon that you hear on the airwaves and break it down for you, while also reaching back into the past to revisit some of the biggest financial events of the last half century - to see if there are any lessons we can learn from them today…
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Would scrapping inheritance tax crash the stock market? Why is HS2 so over budget? What really happened when Rupert Murdoch stepped down last week? Jo...
Is Sunak's environmental U-turn bad for business? What's the real story behind his net zero delay? Join Robert and Steph for this emergency episode of...
Should the Bank of England shoulder some of the blame for the economic turmoil during the Liz Truss premiership? Is Elon Musk really 'driven by inner ...
How significant is the resignation of BP’s boss? Is there trouble looming on the horizon for British pensions? Has Universal Music Group reshaped the ...
How much harm has been done by decades of governments investing too little? Is buy-now-pay-later causing misery or joy for young shoppers? Are superma...
Are we witnessing the slow death of the British stock market? Can the high street survive in 2023? Why is the French government paying its farmers to ...
**FIRST EPISODE - WEDNESDAY 30TH AUGUST** Does money really make the world go round? Economics, business and finance have long been subjects we leave ...