Robert Peston and Steph McGovern follow the money to bring you insightful stories from the world of business and finance. Who’s making money and who’s spending it? Who’s investing, and who’s innovating? How will AI affect the way we work and why are Saudi Arabia buying up sport? How can the UK economy recover its productivity and adapt for the future? Steph and Robert tap their extensive business contacts to answer these questions and decode the jargon to help make sense of the financial world.
Did Trump's two hour ‘state of the union' speech tell us anything we didn't know? What's next for trade tariffs? Will anyone get a tariff refund? And where does all this leave Keir Starmer and his 2025 trade deals with the US? With the US Supreme Court ruling that Trump overstepped his authority, Robert and Steph discuss what impact trade tariffs have had so far and whether Trump's new 15% universal tariff will carry any weight. Plus we hear from UK manufacturers about how they're feeling in all this trade chaos. The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is the secret to scaling a startup into the next Google, Youtube or Airbnb? Why do you need an American on your board to be as successful as them? And what is Trump really motivated by? Plus why being an outsider can be a superpower in business. Sir Michael Moritz ran Sequoia Capital for over 35 years and is one of the world's most successful venture capitalists - he talks to Steph about the convulsive context of Trump's America, what it takes to become one of the Magnificent Seven and how his family's escape from Nazi Germany led to an inherited despair that powered him through business - as featured in his new book Ausländer. The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What impact does migration have on the UK economy? Are we heading for net-zero migration and does it matter? Is the so called ‘brain drain' a real thing? And why do politicians love talking about immigration so much? Madeline Sumption MBE - Director of Oxford University's Migration Observatory - talks to Steph about the complex reality behind the numbers. And as they delve into the stats they also look at the politicisation of immigration and discuss what immigration policy is really for. The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why can't the UK shake its "confidence rut" despite having a £1 trillion savings buffer? How are global "populist" spending trends forcing the bond market to act as a fiscal referee? And is the UK actually poised to become an AI superpower? In this episode, Robert and Steph welcome back Karen Ward, Chief Market Strategist for EMEA at J.P. Morgan Asset Management and former advisor to the Chancellor. The discussion dives deep into the 'split personality' of the UK economy, where high financial stability in the private sector is juxtaposed with a pervasive lack of confidence in government by consumers and business. The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How did friend of the show, tax lawyer Dan Neidle, manage to discover the true extent of Peter Mandelson's connections to Jeffrey Epstein? What crucial information has Dan pieced together using Blackberry signatures and time zones that reveal what some redacted elements tried to cover up? Has Dan discovered the real reason why Mandelson was prepared to forward sensitive emails almost immediately to the disgraced financier and sex offender? Robert, Steph and Dan discuss how some diligent investigation from Dan contributed to the biggest political and financial scandal in recent times. Search Mandelson's Epstein emails using Dan's tool on the Tax Policy Associates website: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/11/epstein-files-mandelson-email-search/ The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why does Peter Kyle think Mandelson was as brilliant as he was flawed? What impact will the new China deals have on UK growth? And does he care what Trump thinks about them? Plus Kyle's plans to get the UK's first trillion dollar company. Steph and Robert interview the Business Secretary fresh from his visit to China. Plus find out what happened when the interview was interrupted by an evacuation…….it involves Ian Wright and a former German Chancellor. The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How far does Jeffrey Epstein's dark web extend into the global financial system? How much damage might Peter Mandelson have done by sharing confidential market sensitive details with Epstein? And why, despite decades of being dogged by scandals, has Mandelson kept being let back into senior political roles - and where does this leave Keir Starmer? Robert and Steph discuss the latest fallout from the new Epstein files release and the implications across the financial and political world. Not losing sight of the courage of those who Epstein abused, who are at the heart of this reckoning. The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How is the mass civil unrest in Iran, and the brutal killing of protestors, linked to the collapse of living standards? Why have Western sanctions been a blunt tool? And how rife is corruption in the Tehran regime? In this episode, Steph and Robert examine whether there is a route back to freedom and prosperity for Iran. Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Founder and CEO of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation offers a deep analysis of the economic grievances that have destroyed social cohesion, and examines what's needed to avert total catastrophic collapse. Plus they discuss the ramifications for the global economy. The Rest is Money is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's smart energy pioneer. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What links Japan's new prime minister with Liz Truss and Margaret Thatcher? Can Keir Starmer balance relations with Beijing without jeopardising ties to Washington? And why are Steph and Robert so worried about the future of hairdressing? Steph and Robert assess the $7 trillion upheaval in Japan's bond market and discuss the risks and rewards of Starmer's visit to China. They also examine the UK's most overtaxed high-street industry, asking why hairdressers are being hit harder than anyone else - and whether rising business rates could wipe out apprenticeships. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why have US productivity and living standards outstripped the UK's? Why is it good news that more British businesses are failing? And why is the challenge now to make sure younger, more productive businesses get the capital they need? Steph and Robert talk to Ruth Curtice, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, about the report card the Resolution Foundation has written on whether the government is meeting its central ambition to promote growth - and draw back the veil on Reeves's income tax U-turn. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is it that makes Trump back down? Why is Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, one of the only ones standing up to him? How strong is the EU's hand in all of this? And why is the UK's dependency on the US about more than trade? Steph and Robert look at what the latest Trump chaos means for the global economy and why “Britain is America's lunch” right now. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Does the negotiator of Britain's exit from the EU accept Brexit has failed? What in Liz Truss's disastrous mini budget does he still endorse? What are his plans to revive the think tank that gave us Thatcherism? In this episode, Steph and Robert sit down with Lord David Frost - the Brexit negotiator turned head of the Institute of Economic Affairs. They examine whether his climate “realism” is in fact climate denialism and his arguments that the British state has grown too big, too intrusive, and too expensive Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Are the u-turns on ID cards and business rates bad for the economy? Can the Northern Powerhouse Rail deliver what it's promising? And why is Donald Trump strong-arming banks and oil companies in a way that looks more like old-fashioned state socialism than free-market capitalism? Steph and Robert examine Labour's modernisation agenda and ask whether Donald Trump has swapped free-market economics for a “Banana Republic” style economy. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why is Britain's innovation economy is the strongest in Europe? What can the government do to strengthen it further? And can the UK outperform even America and China? Steph and Robert sit down with 'professional optimist' Saul Klein, Co-Founder & Executive Chair of Phoenix Court and venture capital investor, who explains why the foundations of new UK enterprise are stronger than at any time since the late 19th century Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why is the Trump land grab as much about the economic war with China as it is about defence? How is his obsession with Greenland linked to magnets vital to energy, missiles and communication? And why are the PayPal mafia in lead roles? Steph and Robert assess Trump's empire building and whether Kier Starmer has finally discovered how to be cheerful about the economy Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why is Slough twice as productive as Mansfield? What's the secret to reviving the economy in the North? Can we save the high street in 2026? Steph and Robert speak to Andrew Carter, CEO of Centre For Cities, a leading think tank focussed on how to improve the performance of our towns and cities. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Will Starmer survive? Who will win the economic war between China and America? Is 2026 when hope returns to Britain? Robert and Steph weigh up 2025 economic results and make some predictions for the year ahead. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How much should school education be about workplace skills and how much about knowledge? Should businesses be more involved in education? Is the assessment of education all wrong? And should learning and qualifications be encouraged at all ages? With up to 3 million UK jobs at risk over the next decade according to the National Foundation for Educational Research, Steph talks to their CEO Carole Willis, alongside Will Bridgman MD of engineering firm Warren Services who have built a skills pipeline in their local community and Amjad Ali who helps run 21 schools as part of Chiltern Learning Trust. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Who was Mike Lynch and how did his tech companies make him a billionaire? How did he avoid prison in an American fraud trial when he'd only given himself a 0.4% chance of winning the case? Why did his tragic death spark conspiracy theories around the world? Katie Prescott, technology business editor at The Times, joins Robert and Steph to discuss the extraordinary life and death of a British tech billionaire, on whom she's based her latest book: The Curious Case of Mike Lynch. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How Chairman Archie Norman and CEO Stuart Machin are turning round one of the UK's oldest and most iconic businesses, and how the government should watch and learn from it. If M&S can be great again, so can Britain. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Is there any worse trauma for a business than a cyber attack? What should you do if it happens? Plus how do M&S decide when to close a store and, if it does, is that the final nail in the coffin for that town centre? Steph and Robert talk with M&S chairman Archie Norman, about not just any cyber attack, but an M&S cyber attack. Plus what the barometer of British retail is planning to do next. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How is GB Energy building a third of Britain's daily energy requirements? Can it hit the government's clean energy target? And how is it creating high skilled jobs and new cutting edge businesses? Steph and Robert find out from the chair of Great British Energy, Jürgen Maier - the former government advisor and CEO of Siemens UK. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What are the economic and business consequences for Europe of Trump's National Security Strategy? How is the US president shaping Hollywood's future as Netflix and Paramount fight for ownership of Warner Bros? And who is missing from the major conflict negations needed for peace and economic prosperity? Robert and Steph assess the impact of the latest manifestations of Trump's determination to run everything. Email: therestismoney@goalhanger.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How is AI being used to transform how we create new materials? Why did the young British AI company doing it raise most money outside the UK? How might this solve some of our biggest problems like climate change and water pollution? Following their conversation with Science Minister Sir Patrick Vallance, Robert and Steph speak to Dr Chad Edwards, the CEO and co-founder of Cusp AI. Email: restismoney@gmail.comX: @TheRestIsMoneyInstagram: @TheRestIsMoneyTikTok: @RestIsMoney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why is the NHS paying more for new medicines? Will the government at last buy from British tech companies? How can the UK life sciences be more entrepreneurial? Lord Patrick Vallance, the government's Science, Innovation Research & Nuclear Minister (and former Chief Scientific Advisor), joins Robert and Steph to talk about trade deals, scale-up finance and how investing in the Oxford-Cambridge corridor might mean growth for the whole country. Visit: https://www.gov.uk/teachinfurthereducation to find out more. Download the app to experience Blacklane yourself: https://blacklane.onelink.me/PVgS/pa5yx0q7 Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why wasn't the chancellor more radical? How will the new mileage tax for electric vehicles be collected? Is the new mansion tax fair? Robert and Steph deconstruct the budget with tax expert Dan Neidle. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why did the Chancellor and Treasury suggest the public finances are a disaster when they weren't? Why did the Office for Budget Responsibility call them out? What is the true story behind the income tax u-turn. Steph and Robert discuss. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Do Reeves's budget sums add up? Who will be hurt by her tax rises? And has she put saving her job above reviving the economy? Steph and Robert discuss. Find out how Google AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation at https://www.goo.gle/10stories Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How can governments and businesses nudge us to change our behaviour? Are we too easily manipulated by the private sector? How do we design economic policy for the real world, not mythical perfect markets? Robert speaks to the father of behavioural economics and Nobel prize winner Richard Thaler. For investing, savings, and pensions, the smart money's with Wealthify. Open your account today at https://www.wealthify.com. Wealthify is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With investing, your capital is at risk. Tax treatments depend on individual circumstances and may change in future.Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Will growth and savings be hurt by pension tax changes in the budget? Will the property market be whacked by plans to tax high value properties? How will they police a mileage tax on electric cars? Robert and Steph discuss. Find out how Google AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation at https://www.goo.gle/10stories Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why have investors turned against Reeves and Starmer? Was the u-turn on the income tax rise bad economics and bad politics? How will the budget raise the £25bn still needed? Robert and Steph discuss. For investing, savings, and pensions, the smart money's with Wealthify. Open your account today at https://www.wealthify.com.Wealthify is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With investing, your capital is at risk. Tax treatments depend on individual circumstances and may change in future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How much will a political coup against the Prime Minister affect the confidence of UK investors? Are Reform capitalising on Rachel Reeves' negativity? Can the Treasury find enough money to solve the national scandal of deprivation against the backdrop of a £30bn fiscal black hole? Robert and Steph discuss. Get started today at https://www.HubSpot.com Find out how Google AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation at https://www.goo.gle/10stories Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What does the 1929 crash teach us about now? Is the AI boom as dangerous as the Great Crash? If it goes pop, what will we be left with? Robert speaks to Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times columnist and author of 1929. Get started today at https://www.HubSpot.com For investing, savings, and pensions, the smart money's with Wealthify. Open your account today at https://www.wealthify.com. Wealthify is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With investing, your capital is at risk. Tax treatments depend on individual circumstances and may change in future. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Did the Chancellor's pre-budget speech work? Why should she increase the basic rate of income tax? Is it time to abolish the pensioner's triple lock? Robert asks economist Jim O'Neill about the advice he's been giving the treasury ahead of the budget. Visit: https://www.gov.uk/teachinfurthereducation to find out more Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Can the truce between Trump and Xi hold? What should Starmer do now to prepare for the coming AI shock? And how can Reeves's budget combine tax rises with growth stimulation? Robert talks with Mohamed El-Erian, Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Get started today at https://www.HubSpot.com For investing, savings, and pensions, the smart money's with Wealthify. Open your account today at https://www.wealthify.com. Wealthify is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With investing, your capital is at risk. Tax treatments depend on individual circumstances and may change in future. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How can investors compel companies to pay the “real” living wage and stop selling foods that make us obese? Can anyone with a pension put pressure on businesses? Why are American fund managers so scared of Trump? Robert speaks to Catherine Howarth, Chief Executive of ShareAction, the leading European NGO that tries to make big business act responsibly. Get started today at https://www.HubSpot.com Find out how Google AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation at https://www.goo.gle/10stories Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What role can tax play in reviving the UK? Is Trump a protectionist or free trader at heart? What does the economist who inspired Truss make of her notorious budget? Robert speaks with the acclaimed economist Art Laffer about how he draws the most famous curve in economics. For investing, savings, and pensions, the smart money's with Wealthify. Open your account today at https://www.wealthify.com. Wealthify is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With investing, your capital is at risk. Tax treatments depend on individual circumstances and may change in future. Get started today at https://www.HubSpot.com Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Should the budget stop the avoidance of employers' national insurance by the UK's highest paid professions? How does the government restore the confidence of its creditors? Are we facing a private credit crash? Robert discusses with Chief Market Strategist of JP Morgan Asset Management Europe, Karen Ward. Find out more about how Google's AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation and read the report at goo.gle/aiworks. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How can Rachel Reeves deliver a budget that means she won't have to raise taxes again next year? What would rational tax reform look like? Should this be the budget when they finally raise fuel duty in line with the escalator? Robert chats to the new Director of the IFS, Helen Miller. Find out more about how Google's AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation and read the report at goo.gle/aiworks. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why have graduate job vacancies collapsed? How is AI changing how we work? How can companies become forces for good? Robert Peston chats with James Reed, author of Karma Capitalism and chair of the UK's largest digital recruitment service, Reed. Find out more about how Google's AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation and read the report at goo.gle/aiworks. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How big is the AI bubble? When it bursts, who will be hurt? What impact on jobs and wages in artificial intelligence having now? Robert discusses with Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View and tech investor. Find out more about how Google's AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation and read the report at goo.gle/aiworks. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What is Badenoch's new fiscal Golden Rule? How many vulnerable people would be hurt by their planned welfare cuts? Why would the Tories slash overseas aid again? At the end of Tory conference, Robert talks with Shadow Chancellor, Mel Stride. Find out more about how Google's AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation and read the report at goo.gle/aiworks. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why don't companies want to list in London anymore? Why is this damaging for all of us? How much will it cost the Treasury in lost tax if companies follow AstraZeneca's example and list in the US? Robert and Steph discuss the LSE's fall out of the top 20 world markets for companies that raise money and what can be done about it. Find out more about how Google's AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation and read the report at goo.gle/aiworks. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Will any of the schemes and policies announced at Labour's conference actually much us richer? Will the Chancellor be bailed out in her budget by inflation? How many forecasts does Reeves really need? Steph and Robert discuss with former IFS Director and Provost of The Queen's College Oxford, Paul Johnson. Visit https://www.gov.uk/teachinfurthereducation in further education to find out more. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What are the tax solutions to Reeves's budget crisis? What tax changes would encourage growth? Can she afford to scrap the two-child benefit cap? Steph and Robert speak to former Director of Fiscal Policy at the Treasury and current Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation Ruth Curtice. For investing, savings, and pensions, the smart money's with Wealthify. Open your account today at https://www.wealthify.com Wealthify is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. With investing, your capital is at risk. Tax treatments depend on individual circumstances and may change in future. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Who is to blame for the £30bn of taxes Reeves needs to raise in the budget? Is Starmer's big dream to turn the north east into an AI powerhouse pie in the sky? Can the Midlands car industry recover from the calamitous cyber attack on JLR? Robert and Steph discuss all this and more. Find out more about how Google's AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation and read the report at goo.gle/aiworks. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
How do we cut poor countries' debts without rewarding corrupt dictators? After Trump's abandonment of aid to developing countries, will poverty and disease be unstoppable? How do we restore hope? Robert is joined by Helle Thorning Schmitt, former Danish Prime Minister to discuss how we stay hopeful in a world of such extreme challenges Robert is joined by former Danish Prime Minister and ex- head of Save the Children, Helle Thorning-Schmidt about why we should stay hopeful in the mission to tackle global poverty. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Should we worry that all our AI infrastructure will be owned by US firms? How can we turn schools and colleges into the drivers of economic recovery? How much of education and investment power should be transferred from Westminster to mayors? Steph and Robert speak with Andy Haldane, former Chief Economist at the Bank of England about his influential report on boosting regional prosperity No other British bank has helped more businesses get started than NatWest. Whatever your idea, it doesn't have to be perfect, just start! Search ‘NatWest Business Accounts'. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
What are the Reform leader's tax arrangements? Do the party leaders really publish their tax returns? Has there ever been a financially dodgier Prime Minister than Winston Churchill? Robert and Steph speak to tax expect and friend of the show, Dan Neidle. No other British bank has helped more businesses get started than NatWest. Whatever your idea, it doesn't have to be perfect, just start! Search ‘NatWest Business Accounts'. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Why do politicians hang out with billionaires? Are they a problem for democracy? What happens when a wealthy venture capitalist starts lobbying British institutions? Steph and Robert look at how the mega-rich have their fingers in everything from art to politics and discuss why it matters. Visit https://www.gov.uk/teach in further education to find out more. No other British bank has helped more businesses get started than NatWest. Whatever your idea, it doesn't have to be perfect, just start! Search ‘NatWest Business Accounts'. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Who is Nigel Farage inspired by when it comes to Reform's plans for the economy? What does Starmer's reshuffle mean for business, skills and employment law? And which minister refused to move? Robert and Steph discuss the aftermath of reshuffles and defections. No other British bank has helped more businesses get started than NatWest. Whatever your idea, it doesn't have to be perfect, just start! Search ‘NatWest Business Accounts'. Email: restismoney@gmail.com X: @TheRestIsMoney Instagram: @TheRestIsMoney TikTok: @RestIsMoney https://goalhanger.com Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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