Money Talks from The Economist
Episodes
Trailer: Money Talks
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join The Economist’s Mike Bird, Alice Fulwood and Ethan Wu for award-winning reporting and discussion on the stories that move markets. They speak t...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 3
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
AI is changing how we work. It's turning us all into managers. Be a good one.The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, takes on the bots ...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist’s management columnist, Andrew Palmer, is here ...
Import-extort: what to make of Donald Trump’s titanic tariffs
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After months of bluster, he’s finally done it. At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Donald Trump overturned decades of American trade polic...
Trailer: Scam Inc
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. And it’...
Trailer: The Modi Raj
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyeing a third term atop the world’s biggest democra...
Money Talks: Why weight-loss drugs will reshape the world
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
More than 1bn people around the world are obese. That means there should be extraordinary demand for drugs to cure or mitigate the condition. Novo Nor...
Money Talks: Why Amazon should be afraid of Temu
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon started with a plan to disrupt bookselling. It sold cheap books online, delivering them straight to customers’ homes. Three decades later it ...
Money Talks: Is the West losing its sanctions war?
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's been two years since Russia brought war to Ukraine. America, Britain and the European Union may not have intervened by putting boots on the groun...
Money Talks: Europe’s luxury crown
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
European firms dominate the global luxury landscape, accounting for two-thirds of sales and nine of the ten most valuable luxury brands. A strong emph...
Money Talks: There’s no business like it
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We raise the curtain on the business of New York’s iconic theatre district. Broadway has been struggling with rising costs and falling sales since t...
Money Talks: Play it again, Sam Altman
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In five days OpenAI’s boss was fired by its board; hired by Microsoft, the startup’s biggest investor; and returned to his post at OpenAI. Yet thi...
Money Talks: Touring America’s industrial revival
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act promised $370bn for green infrastructure and industry. It has spurred a surge in massive construction ...
Money Talks: The future of crypto, part two
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, we spoke to the author Michael Lewis, who was embedded with Sam Bankman-Fried, as FTX, the crypto-trading empire he built, came crashing do...
Money Talks: Trailer
05 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Take a seat at the table and learn about the biggest stories in financial markets, the economy and business. Each week our editors and correspondents ...