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The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes
by Financial Times · English
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. Soumaya Keynes is an economics columnist for the Financial Times. Prior to joining the FT she worked at The Economist for eight years as a staff writer, where as well as covering trade, the US economy and the UK economy she co-hosted the Money Talks podcast. She also co-founded the Trade Talks podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Europe’s AI story. With Philip Lane
Whether Europe is really “left behind” in the AI boom, and how AI affects euro-area growth, inflation, investment, trade, labor markets, and monetary policy.
13 Nov 2026 · 25m · 7 chaptersCan economics fight fascism? With Isabella Weber
Isabella Weber argues for “anti-fascist economics”: government policies that keep essentials affordable and limit corporate concentration/power, because economic insecurity and concentrated private…
6 Nov 2026 · 35m · 16 chaptersThe right way to tax the rich. With Owen Zidar
The episode argues the “right way to tax the rich” should broaden beyond billionaires to the much larger group of “everywhere millionaires” who own private, pass-through businesses; it also discusses…
30 Oct 2026 · 33m · 12 chaptersWhy oil hasn’t ruined the global economy. With Rory Johnston
Oil shock resilience after the Strait of Hormuz crisis—why the feared “oil apocalypse” didn’t permanently wreck the global economy, and what could still drive prices and refined-fuel shortages higher.
23 Oct 2026 · 29m · 11 chaptersLessons in communication for Kevin Warsh. With Chris Giles
How central bank communications affect inflation control, market volatility, and public trust during tense conditions (Iran war, AI build-out, rising bond yields, public-finance fears).
16 Oct 2026 · 27m · 8 chaptersThe EU vs China: it’s complicated. With Bernd Lange
The EU’s trade conflict with China and the risk of escalation, plus parallel EU tensions with the US.
9 Oct 2026 · 23m · 11 chaptersWhy Big Tech wants more economists
Big AI labs are hiring and funding economists to study AI’s economic effects, raising questions about conflicts of interest, data access, and whether research is shaped by corporate incentives.
2 Oct 2026 · 31m · 12 chaptersHow to be a middle power in a superpower world. With Jenny Bates
How the UK (a “middle power”) can manage risk in a world where major powers weaponize economic ties, and what practical tools it can use—especially through middle-power cooperation, leverage, and…
25 Sep 2026 · 31m · 16 chaptersCan you spreadsheet your way to equal parenting? With Corinne Low
Whether childcare and housework can be made more equal using time-tracking/spreadsheets, and what economists’ data says about parenting labor, gender roles, and policy defaults.
18 Sep 2026 · 27m · 9 chaptersWill US debt burst the AI bubble? With Ruchir Sharma
Whether the US national debt could “pop” the AI bubble by pushing up interest rates and tightening financial conditions.
11 Sep 2026 · 27m · 10 chaptersMemory chip mania isn’t going away, with Dan Kim
The episode explains the current “memory chip mania,” driven by AI data-center demand, and how it affects prices, supply allocation, and geopolitics between the US, China, Korea, and Japan.
4 Sep 2026 · 32m · 15 chaptersKevin Warsh spoke — what did we learn? With Torsten Slok
Kevin Warsh (Fed chair) opens the Jackson Hole symposium; Torsten Slok explains what the speech clarified about Fed communication, monetary policy framework, and the likely path for rates, plus…
29 Aug 2026 · 19m · 10 chapters
From "The Story of Money": How a stock market crash gave birth to modern antisemitism
The episode traces how the 1871–1873 German and Austrian stock-market boom (the Gründerszeit) and the 1873 crash (Gründerkrack) helped generate a new, “modern” antisemitism—moving from religious…
21 Aug 2026 · 50m · 18 chapters
From "Trumponomics": Can the US Actually Tax Billionaires?
Whether the US can tax billionaires, given loopholes in capital gains, wealth mobility, and possible future erosion of the income-tax base from AI-driven job shifts.
14 Aug 2026 · 24m · 10 chaptersHow to break China’s chokehold on rare earths
How China’s export controls on rare earth metals and permanent magnets (triggered in 2025) created global manufacturing disruptions, and how the US/EU/allies are trying to reduce dependence via…
7 Aug 2026 · 31m · 16 chaptersWill AI solve the productivity puzzle? With Nick Bloom
Whether AI will reverse weak productivity growth, and whether work-from-home (and related labor-supply effects) explains recent productivity gains; also how AI is changing economics research and…
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