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

May 24, 2025
May 24, 2025
14 min
A savings glut creates global economic instability, and that's precisely the problem the world's got right now. The question is, what are we going to do about it?

May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
8 min
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends the chance of a President being held in contempt of US courts, and that means US democracy is over. What happens next?

May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025
10 min
Donald Rumsfeld got his famous quote on knowns wrong: he ignored the unknown knowns, and they are a huge issue in modern politics.

May 21, 2025
May 21, 2025
7 min
Starmer wants us to think he's doing big foreign policy deals. He isn't. He's playing in the sandpit of international relations, and nothing is really changing.

May 20, 2025
May 20, 2025
10 min
Can the US survive the assault on it from Trump, given how devastating he plans it to be?

May 19, 2025
May 19, 2025
11 min
The whole of the West has a childbirth problem. We're not having enough children to replace ourselves. Why is that? And what needs to change if the birthrate is to increase?

May 18, 2025
May 18, 2025
8 min
Unless and until our politicians realise that every economic decision they make creates an economic reaction, they'll ignore that fact, but national accounting isn't even based on this methodology.

May 17, 2025
May 17, 2025
6 min
Trump wants to be one of the wealthiest men in the world. That's when he became President for the second time, and this time, he intends that nothing should prevent him from achieving his goal.

May 16, 2025
May 16, 2025
13 min
The UK needs a migration policy that serves the needs of the country, everyone in it, and people who want to come here. Is that too much to ask for? Or would our politicians prefer to dig-whistle instead?

May 15, 2025
May 15, 2025
8 min
Reform has pledged to do everything it can to block green energy, but doing so will increase energy prices. Why do they want to do that?







