The financial impacts of the Iran conflict — how rising prices and interest rates will affect our lives, with context from previous oil crises.
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Sweden had the same property trouble in 1992 that Ireland hit in 2008 — but somehow escaped the IMF. Why couldn't we copy and paste?
97 million barrels a day — how oil remains vital to the global economy and its impact on geopolitics and wars.
Fixed or floating? For small countries, seeking exchange rate stability could be storing up problems. From Chapter 3 of Paul's new book.
How US Government actions in the 1960s and 1970s led to the mother of all interest hikes — from Chapter 1 of Paul's new book.
From Ponzi schemes to someone buying the Eiffel Tower — why financial scams keep working and human nature never really changes.
From medieval poll taxes to window taxes that reshaped buildings — history's biggest tax blunders and what they teach us.
How Silicon Valley Bank's business model — built for a low-inflation world — unravelled when prices and interest rates surged.
You might think you can fool the financial markets — this episode shows that you usually can't. The Liz Truss era, unpacked.
Japan's dramatic economic boom and bust — from soaring property prices to the bubble that burst spectacularly in the early 1990s.
