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Episodes

A new episode will be released each week.

Risk and reward

Our trip through history takes us from Jane Austen through Joe Lyons. Janette Rutterford offers a brief history of investment.

Certain thing

Introduced to fight Bonaparte, Jane Frecknell-Hughes explains why, all these years later, we're still paying income tax.

George Soros [Photo by Jeff Ooi under attribution creative commons licence]

Midweek blues

Martin Upton explains why it wasn't only George Soros for whom it was a far-from-Black Wednesday.

Representatives to the Conference on Unemployment The meeting was called by U.S. President Warren G. Harding in response to the 1921 recession

Slowing down

Can we ease the pain of the downturn by using lessons from the past? Malcolm Prowle guides us through the recession.

What money does to us

Companies are increasingly vulnerable to powerful financial institutions seeking short tem profit. Pauline Gleadle examines the ins and outs of financialisation.