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The Economics Show

Financial Times

The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes is a new weekly podcast from the Financial Times packed full of smart, digestible analysis and incisive conversation. Soumaya Keynes digs deep into the hottest topics in economics along with a cast of FT colleagues and special guests. Come for the big ideas, stay for the nerdery.…

135 episodes tracked

The Economics Show

Lessons in communication for Kevin Warsh. With Chris Giles

The EU vs China: it’s complicated. With Bernd Lange

Why Big Tech wants more economists

How to be a middle power in a superpower world. With Jenny Bates

Can you spreadsheet your way to equal parenting? With Corinne Low

Will US debt burst the AI bubble? With Ruchir Sharma

Memory chip mania isn’t going away, with Dan Kim

Kevin Warsh spoke — what did we learn? With Torsten Slok

From "The Story of Money": How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism

From "Trumponomics": Can the US Actually Tax Billionaires?

How to break China’s chokehold on rare earths

Will AI solve the productivity puzzle? With Nick Bloom

Is China catching up with the US in AI? With Kyle Chan

The US-Iran war has not triggered a food crisis — yet. With Adam Hanieh and Susannah Savage

The economics of weight loss, with Rebecca Diamond and Claer Barrett

Why didn’t the Iran war cause a recession? With Tyler Goodspeed

How to win at AI (if you’re not the US or China), with AI minister Kanishka Narayan

China wanted western tech. Now, the tables have turned. With John Minnich

Brexit at 10: What comes next? With Anand Menon

The US-China decoupling fantasy, with Jessica Chen Weiss

How to win a trade war, with Paul Krugman and Chad Bown

Can African countries mimic Asia’s economic success? With Joe Studwell

Should economics have fewer taboos? With Alvin Roth

Will AI help the Fed conquer inflation? With Austan Goolsbee

How will falling fertility rates hurt the economy? With Melissa Kearney

Will energy security fears change the global energy market? With Daniel Yergin

Will the energy shock change global trade imbalances? With Brad Setser

How long will the Iran energy shock last? With Chris Giles

Economic warfare: lessons from history, with Mark Harrison

The global economy is Iran’s hostage. Can it be released? With Edward Fishman

Lessons from China’s industrial dominance, with Kyle Chan

Is AI (finally) making us more productive? With John Burn-Murdoch and Sarah O’Connor

Are investors getting the Iran conflict wrong? With Robin Brooks

Could common debt make the EU stronger? With Carlos Cuerpo

Trump’s tariffs are not dead yet, with Michael Froman

What did ‘Nudge’ get wrong? With Nick Chater

How China is fighting ‘involution’, with Yanmei Xie

What an economist eats for lunch (in 2026), with Tyler Cowen

How big a deal is the EU-India trade agreement? With Nicolas Köhler-Suzuki and Ajay Srivastava

The economy in 2026: What risks lie ahead? With Gita Gopinath

How the Fed fights back, with Don Kohn

How bad is America’s affordability crisis? With Mechele Dickerson

Behind The Money: How First Brands Group collapsed

Martin Wolf speaks to Christine Lagarde: Europe’s ‘existential crisis’

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Power, plutocracy and political economy

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: America vs the world

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Maga man and Mamdani

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Trump’s ‘vibecession’

Did globalisation kill neoliberalism? With Branko Milanović

The limits of monetary policy, with Agustín Carstens

What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with Richard Thaler

Are Trump’s tariffs legal? With Jennifer Hillman

How to kickstart the UK economy. With Tim Leunig

What’s up with the US economy? With Austan Goolsbee

The economics of birth control. With Martha Bailey

How to get immigration right. With Adam Ozimek

China’s economy vs the world. With Michael Pettis

The ugly truth about Trump’s ‘beautiful tariffs’. With Martha Gimbel

China and the limits of its ‘engineering state’. With Dan Wang

Fed independence? Here’s why you should worry. With Peter Conti-Brown

After globalisation: What's next for a fractured world? With Neil Shearing

How Asia is coping with Trump’s tariffs. With Mari Pangestu

Why Russia’s wartime economy is starting to crack, with Elina Ribakova

Introducing the Rachman Review: Is the US heading for a debt crisis?

Can we still trust US economic data? With Erica Groshen

Development funding is in crisis. What now? With Mark Suzman

Has Argentina’s Milei proved his critics wrong? With Alejandro Werner

Can Europe afford to rearm itself? With Jeromin Zettelmeyer

What Trump’s tariffs deadline has (not) achieved, with Dmitry Grozoubinski

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: your questions answered

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: The future of the postwar system

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: AI hype vs reality

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: The economy in an uncertain world

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: how the old economic order fell out of favour

The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: the crisis of trust

How economics wins wars, with Duncan Weldon

What does China want from the US? With Jay Shambaugh

How should central banks respond to US tariffs?

Bonus: Globalisation can be slowed, but not stopped