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Goalhanger

Robert Peston and Steph McGovern bring you insightful business and finance stories.
Join Robert Peston and Steph McGovern as they delve into the key challenges and opportunities facing today’s business world. From the complexities of tech investments to the impact of political decisions on global markets, this podcast offers valuable perspectives on current financial topics. Whether discussing business funding, economic policies, or corporate strategies, they provide listeners with the tools to understand today’s fast-evolving market.
Each episode brings expert analysis on important issues, including market regulations, economic recovery, and the forces shaping the future of work. Robert and Steph bring you the latest insights from influential leaders and top entrepreneurs, making this podcast a must-listen for anyone interested in business growth, financial trends, and the evolving economic landscape.
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The Rest Is Money

Robert and Steph speak to Paul Johnson, Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, about whether Labour can fix our creaking public services in next years spending review, if it’s realistic that Wes Streeting will ‘reform’ the NHS and why vital data on the UK jobs market is so poor.

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley
Producer: Ross Buchanan
Head of Content: Tom Whiter
Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport
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119. Can Labour’s spending review really mend public services?

Steph and Robert are joined by Sir Bill Browder, political activist and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, formerly the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia, to discuss how using Russia’s frozen assets against them could help Kiev win the war, why Putin won’t take a Trump peace deal and why the toppling of the Assad regime may only prolong the war in Ukraine.

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Hannah Rashbass
Producer: Ross Buchanan
Head of Content: Tom Whiter
Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport
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120. The Man Most Feared By Putin: Part 1

Robert and Steph talk to Sir Bill Browder about making billions after the fall of the Soviet Union, only to end up with a target from Putin on his back. This is a story of murder and corruption leading him into his life’s work persuading governments to hit human rights abusers where it hurts. The threat of Putin’s revenge is ever present and Bill’s stories include the time he was bundled into a car by Spanish police fearing for his life.

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Hannah Rashbass
Producer: Ross Buchanan
Head of Content: Tom Whiter
Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport
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121. The Man Most Feared By Putin: Part 2

Google is making huge bets on artificial intelligence and quantum computing. It is reinventing how millions of us work and live. But in the process is it also eating its own lunch, destroying the search business that turned it into one of the world’s most valuable companies? Steph and Robert put all this and more to Matt Brittin, Google’s most powerful European executive, as he prepares to step down and quit Google after 17 years.

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122. Google At A Crossroads

Robert and Steph answer your questions including whether we are heading inexorably towards another financial crisis and whether the UK might be more prosperous if the National Health Service were privatised. 

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Hannah Rashbass
Producer: Ross Buchanan
Head of Content: Tom Whiter
Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport
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123. When Will The Next Financial Crisis Be?

Steph and Robert reflect on some of The Rest Is Money’s big insights from 2024, including why governments should focus on improving our happiness rather than our incomes and why Labour’s biggest mistake was to ignore the black hole in the public finances before the election. 

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Hannah Rashbass
Producer: Ross Buchanan
Head of Content: Tom Whiter
Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport
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124. Can Labour Restore Public Trust in 2025?

Why are so many low income families living in the kind of slum conditions that would have shamed the Victorians? And why are so many of these slums in social and council properties? Robert and Steph look for explanations and solutions, and ask whether Labour’s promise to build 1.5m homes will help, in a conversation with ITV’s award-winning investigations editor Dan Hewitt. 

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Hannah Rashbass
Producer: Ross Buchanan
Head of Content: Tom Whiter
Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport
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125. The Scandal Of Slum UK

Steph and Robert explain why 2025 will be the most important year of our lives, and assess whether it will be a terrible or great year. It is all about the unraveling of globalization and the proliferation of wars. One word nutshells the world on a fulcrum: Trump.

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Becki Hills
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Head of Content: Tom Whiter
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126. Why 2025 Will Be The Most Important Year Of Our Lives

Karen Ward, Chief Market Strategist for one of the leading financial institutions in the world, JP Morgan Asset Management, talks to Robert and Steph about how Starmer can restore investors’ confidence, why she worries that the surge in the Magnificent 7 huge tech stocks is over, how AI can make most of us better off and whether Trump will be less radical than his rhetoric.

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Hannah Rashbass, Alice Horrell
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127. Is Trump’s Bark Worse Than His Bite?

Robert gives us his take on 'Starmer vs Musk' and Steph tells us why she thinks business rates are going to be a big problem this year. There’s also a discussion about misunderstood concepts in economics, first up: GDP. Plus we catch-up on the exciting post Steph and Robert received over Christmas. A clue: it involves a Clinton and a Truss.

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Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell
Producer: Ross Buchanan
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128. Will Starmer Stop Musk's Meddling?

The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford joins Steph to answer your questions, including how a taxless society would operate, whether we can get ourselves out of economic mess by making different lifestyle choices and where butter mountains and wine lakes come from.

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111. What Would Happen If We Didn't Tax Anyone?

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