Funding the Future
Richard Murphy and occasional friends talking about everything you need to know to understand the economy, tax, finance and how we fund our future.
Episodes

Jun 3, 2025
Jun 3, 2025
9 min
Trump wants to use tax as a weapon in international trade wars. That could backfire horribly for him.

Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025
13 min
If big tech can issue their own currencies for use around the world, what chance is there that macroeconomic control of the national economies of the world can be maintained? The threat of global meltdown is very real.

Jun 1, 2025
Jun 1, 2025
11 min
Pension funds provide the most opaque form of investment in the UK. It's crazy that all the rules of corporate governance collapse when it comes to pension funds. We need reform now.

May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025
9 min
Trump is not delivering greatness to America: he's delivering chaos and decline, and people are beginning to notice.

May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
10 min
Interest rates in the UK and the USA are way too high, as a comparison with the Eurozone proves. That's because of their incompetent economic leaders.

May 29, 2025
May 29, 2025
11 min
The Labour government claims that it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple economic analysis shows that these benefits pay for themselves.

May 28, 2025
May 28, 2025
17 min
The UK is a country of massive wealth inequality, with all the stress landing on those the wealthy think to be the undeserving poor, which is most of us

May 27, 2025
May 27, 2025
14 min
Uninsurable houses as a result of climate change will be a disaster for homeowners, banks, governments and the whole of society. Are we ready for the challenge?

May 26, 2025
May 26, 2025
11 min
The world's financial system depends on the dollar, and the man in charge of it is mad, bad, or both. Where are we with the management of the world's reserve currency need in that case?

May 25, 2025
May 25, 2025
4 min
How many poets does it take to change a lightbulb? It's more complicated than you thought, by some way.







