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.

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Episodes

Tuesday Mar 04, 2025

The Republicans in the USA always say they hate debt, except when it is massively increased by Donald Trump as a result of his tax cuts for the wealthy. Then it’s OK. But in a world increasingly hostile to the US they might have to think again.

Is green over?

Monday Mar 03, 2025

Monday Mar 03, 2025

BP might be the most obvious company to have given up on green energy and its sustainability programme, but it is not alone. In Trump’s world being green is out of fashion. What price will we pay for that?

Sunday Mar 02, 2025

There are precedents for dictators making friendships of convenience until they decide to fall out, when the human cost of that happening is horrendous. Is that possible in the case of Putin and Trump?

Where are the presidents?

Saturday Mar 01, 2025

Saturday Mar 01, 2025

Trump is staging a coup in the USA and the last four living presidents are doing nothing to save the country they served. Why is that? When will they act to save their country?

Friday Feb 28, 2025

Trump’s turning on the mainstream media in the US. Much of it is to be banned from the White House. How can US democracy survive this attack, and those that are bound to follow? 

Thursday Feb 27, 2025

It takes some political incompetence to announce a defence spending plan that reduces our security, undermines our soft power, does not deliver for the UK economy, and puts the cost on the wrong people, but Starmer’s managed it. 

Are the Tories lost in space?

Wednesday Feb 26, 2025

Wednesday Feb 26, 2025

The Tories were once the party of reliable, uncontentious and boring middle England. Now Kemi Badenoch claims they are the saviours of a form of Western civilisation that is a figment of her imagination. What hope have they in that unaccustomed role?

Tuesday Feb 25, 2025

The far right have doubled their support in Germany. But, they’re no more popular than the left, and 80% did not vote for fascists. What are the lessons to learn, especially in the UK?

Words matter

Monday Feb 24, 2025

Monday Feb 24, 2025

Unless politicians mean what they say we get a world where nothing can be relied on and chaos rules. Trump’s disdain for the truth is profoundly harmful in that case.

Sunday Feb 23, 2025

Trump is trying to break government, the USA, world peace and much more. We could despair, or we could, as happened in WW2, plan for a better future. I suggest this is the time to plan.

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