Watching the ECB inside the eurozone
ECB interest rates
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Podcasts - Reading and Understanding Economics
These podcasts accompany Reading and Understanding Economics, published by Pearson Education Limited. The podcasts have been recorded by Kevin Boakes.
Episodes
20 of 24 episodesBear is all over the six o' clock news
The end of Bear Strearns
Los Endos for the Monlines
Bond insurers in trouble
Time to go shopping
A good time to buy?
Uk Car industry up the junction
Rise of Tata
End of cash and carry trades
Cash and carry trades FX market
Current Account deficits and surpluses
USA and Japan compared
Brown's golden rule under threat
Fiscal policy
The rise and rise of Chinese inflation
Chinese Inflation: Causes
US Economy heading into recession
US recession
Inflation easy to define but harder to measure
UK inflation
Iceland coming out of winter darkness...
Iceland's banks
What price a national minimum wage
The labour market
Small companies in a bear squeeze
Credit squeeze
A tale of unhappy shareholders at M&S
Principlal agent problem
Google searching for new opportunities
Fixed versus variable costs
Privatisations from Slovenia to Sweden
Assets sales in Slovenia
The environmental impact of higher taxes
4X4s under threat
The power of competition in the UK energy markets
Are UK energy prices too expensive
BAA passes go and collects large price rises
Break-up BAA