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

9 min

Trump wants to use tax as a weapon in international trade wars. That could backfire horribly for him.

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

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

9 min

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

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

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

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

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

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

4 min

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

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