Follow the Money: Why does chocolate cost so much?
The El Nino in 2023 had a detrimental impact on the cocoa harvest in West Africa, prices quadrupled and businesses reacted. Chocolate prices...
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Listen again: Bonds, heroes or villains?
With the cost of government debt reaching its highest for several decades, we're giving you another chance to hear our exploration of how th...
Taking stock: How evicting an 87-year-old woman in Spain disrupted the debate on housing
Protests in Spain about 87-year-old Mariacarmen Abascal's eviction from social housing reignited the housing affordability debate globally,...
Power Players: Can AI really regulate itself?
The AI race is speeding up: and so are the warnings about where it could lead. After President Trump met AI leaders to discuss how to make t...
From blogger to billionaire, Canva's co-founder on what failures at Google Wave taught him
Who studies law but then forgets to apply for any graduate jobs because they've started blogging about web design and JavaScript? Cameron Ad...
Follow the money: Why does an Oktoberfest beer cost €16?
A litre of beer at Munich’s Oktoberfest costs nearly €16; almost four times what a litre cost in 1991 after adjusting for inflation. We foll...
Can Route 66 towns survive on nostalgia?
We're heading west along America's famed Route 66. As the road celebrates its 100th birthday, Victoria Craig finds out whether the pull of n...
The birth of India's call centre industry
In 1997, after years working abroad, Pramod Bhasin returned to India and spotted an opportunity that would help transform his country's econ...
Taking stock: Trump and Xi face the trade test
What is next for trade, tariffs and AI after Presidents Trump and Xi met at the White House? We examine what was agreed, whether tensions be...
Trump meets Xi: What's at stake?
The presidents of the world's two biggest economies are meeting in Washington. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at the White House amid tens...
Founders: The American who built his business in China
Jacob Rothman moved from California to China and helped build a manufacturing business supplying some of the world's biggest retailers. We m...
Follow the money: The journey of a $30 toy from China to America
Most toys sold in America are made in China. But cheap labour is no longer the main reason manufacturers stay there. As the US toy industry...
From Mao and Nixon to Xi and Trump: A history of China-US trade
With Presidents Xi and Trump expected to meet in the United States this week, Will Bain looks back on the history of trade between the two g...
Taking Stock: Can Big Tech rivals be trusted to develop safe AI?
AI: Existential threat or billion-dollar opportunity? The increasingly loud and often stark warnings from inside the tech industry - about t...
Power Players: Does Xbox have a future?
Xbox is 25 years old and faces some of its biggest challenges yet. As cloud gaming grows and the AI boom reshapes the technology industry, e...
Can we control AI?
Artificial intelligence is developing faster than many experts predicted, bringing extraordinary opportunities as well as growing concerns....
Follow the money: Why is a new Ebola vaccine taking so long to develop?
The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has claimed more than 3,400 lives and infected thousands more. Despite the scale of the outbreak, there is sti...
The cost of war: Inside Russia's economic unease
Economic unease is growing among Russian workers as fuel shortages and Ukrainian drone strikes disrupt key sectors of the economy. Ed Butler...
Bonus: Could AI chatbots help Asia's socially isolated youth?
Across Asia, a growing number of young people are becoming hikikomori, a term used to describe individuals experiencing severe social withdr...
Taking stock: Bad blood, bad neighbours and the return of Elizabeth Holmes
Mark Carney and Donald Trump go tit-for-tat as the list of goods subject to tariffs between the US and Canada continues to grow. But will hi...