The Economics Show
The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes is a new weekly podcast from the Financial Times packed full of smart, digestible analysis and incisive conversation. Soumaya Keynes digs deep into the hottest topics in economics along with a cast of FT colleagues and special guests. Come for the big ideas, stay for the nerdery.Soumaya Keynes is an economics columnist for the Financial Times. Prior to joining the FT she worked at The Economist for eight years as a staff writer, where as well as covering tr...
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Memory chip mania isn’t going away, with Dan Kim
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Kevin Warsh spoke — what did we learn? With Torsten Slok
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From "The Story of Money": How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisem...
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From "Trumponomics": Can the US Actually Tax Billionaires?
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How to break China’s chokehold on rare earths
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Will AI solve the productivity puzzle? With Nick Bloom
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Is China catching up with the US in AI? With Kyle Chan
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The US-Iran war has not triggered a food crisis — yet. With Adam Hanieh and Susa...
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The economics of weight loss, with Rebecca Diamond and Claer Barrett
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Why didn’t the Iran war cause a recession? With Tyler Goodspeed
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How to win at AI (if you’re not the US or China), with AI minister Kanishka Nara...
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China wanted western tech. Now, the tables have turned. With John Minnich
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Brexit at 10: What comes next? With Anand Menon
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The US-China decoupling fantasy, with Jessica Chen Weiss
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How to win a trade war, with Paul Krugman and Chad Bown
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Can African countries mimic Asia’s economic success? With Joe Studwell
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Should economics have fewer taboos? With Alvin Roth
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Will AI help the Fed conquer inflation? With Austan Goolsbee
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How will falling fertility rates hurt the economy? With Melissa Kearney
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Will energy security fears change the global energy market? With Daniel Yergin
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Introducing: The Story of Money
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Will the energy shock change global trade imbalances? With Brad Setser
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How long will the Iran energy shock last? With Chris Giles
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Economic warfare: lessons from history, with Mark Harrison
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The global economy is Iran’s hostage. Can it be released? With Edward Fishman
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Lessons from China’s industrial dominance, with Kyle Chan
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Introducing Untold: Opus Dei
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Is AI (finally) making us more productive? With John Burn-Murdoch and Sarah O’Co...
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Are investors getting the Iran conflict wrong? With Robin Brooks
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Could common debt make the EU stronger? With Carlos Cuerpo
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Trump’s tariffs are not dead yet, with Michael Froman
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What did ‘Nudge’ get wrong? With Nick Chater
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How China is fighting ‘involution’, with Yanmei Xie
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What an economist eats for lunch (in 2026), with Tyler Cowen
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How big a deal is the EU-India trade agreement? With Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki and A...
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The economy in 2026: What risks lie ahead? With Gita Gopinath
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How the Fed fights back, with Don Kohn
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How bad is America’s affordability crisis? With Mechele Dickerson
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Behind The Money: How First Brands Group collapsed
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Martin Wolf speaks to Christine Lagarde: Europe’s ‘existential crisis’
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The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Power, plutocracy and political economy
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The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: America vs the world
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The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Maga man and Mamdani
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The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Trump’s ‘vibecession’
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Coming soon: The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: One year of Trump
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Did globalisation kill neoliberalism? With Branko Milanović
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Coming soon from Tech Tonic: Defying death
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The limits of monetary policy, with Agustín Carstens
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What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler
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Are Trump’s tariffs legal? With Jennifer Hillman
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