The Economy: Trailer
Everything you need to know about the economy and what it means for you. This podcast will cut through the jargon to bring you clarity and ensure you finally understand all those complicated terms and phrases you hear on the news. Inflation, GDP, Interest rates, and bonds, Tim Harford and friends explain them all. We’ll ensure you understand what’s going on today, why your shopping is getting more expensive or why your pay doesn’t cover your bills. We’ll also bring you surprising histories, from the war hungry Kings who have shaped how things are counted today to the greedy merchants flooding Spain with Silver coins. So if your eyes usually glaze over when someone says ‘cutting taxes stimulates growth’, fear no more, we’ve got you covered.
Producer: Phoebe Keane
Researchers: Drew Hyndman and Marianna Bain
Editor: Clare Fordham
A BBC Radio Current Affairs Production for BBC Radio 4
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Suffs!
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Playing the Orpheum Theater October 22nd through November 9th.
Tickets at BroadwaySF.com.
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Are you confused about why your mortgage rate is going up?
Unsure of what causes inflation or befuddled over what GDP stands for?
Well, you've come to the perfect place.
Welcome to understand the economy.
I'm Tim Harford, and in each episode, I'll help cut through the fog of financial jargon to bring you the crisp, bright daylight of understanding the world around us.
And this is important because if you understand how the economy works, you can understand why your shopping has suddenly got much more expensive, why your mortgage rate has shot up, why your pay doesn't cover your bills anymore.
On Understand the Economy, we'll take one concept each episode and spell it out as simply as possible.
We'll take you back in time to give you some history and help you build a picture of why we are where we are today.
So, if your eyes usually glaze over when someone says inflation, interest rates, growth, bonds, banks, fear no more.
I'll explain it all.
Welcome to Understand the Economy from BBC Radio 4.
Subscribe now on BBC Sounds.
Sups!
The new musical has made Tony award-winning history on Broadway.
We demand to be home.
Winner, best score.
We demand to be seen.
Winner, best book.
We demand to be quality.
It's a theatrical masterpiece that's thrilling, inspiring, dazzlingly entertaining, and unquestionably the most emotionally stirring musical this season.
Suffs, playing the Orpheum Theater, October 22nd through November 9th.
Tickets at BroadwaySF.com.
