This week, we're doing money at the movies. We're going to look at favourites such as Wall Street, Trading Places and the Big Short to see how cinema has used entertainment to teach us more about the world of high finance. 

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Many of you won't know too much about Taiwan and its most famous company TSMC. However, both economically and politically, both are hugely important to the world economy and world politics. How far off is a war of conquest between China and Taiwan and what would Trump do if China imposes a quarantine, blockade or full scale invasion of Taiwan?

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Donald Trump's new man at the USA's central Bank - the Federal Reserve - Kevin Warsh. We learn all about the background of this newly powerful Lord of Finance, what he believes in, where he wants the Fed to go and is he about to fall out with Trump almost immediately?

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This week, FinTech Pro owner, Jay Patel, joins Marcus and I for a chat about his start in India, the development of the Indian economy, rivalry with China and Irelands Ferrari on a Country Road! Hope you enjoy.

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In today's episode we look at why prices have been rising so much in recent years. We also look at why falling prices, or deflation, can be more damaging then you think. Finally we look at hyperinflation in 1920s Germany when money died.

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In today’s episode we discuss the booming economic times of the 1920s when new inventions like cars, radios and electrification led to massive improvements in people lives. The obsession with stocks led to the dizzying heights of the late 1920s and the Wall Street Crash.

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Today Marcus and I look at AI and the constraints the industry faces as we all jump on the bandwagon. Not everyone loves AI and we look at some of the impacts it could have on employment and even on our existence!

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In today's episode we look at the Chinese manufacturing miracle and how it differs to prior episodes like Japan in the 1980s. China's impact is being felt in all sectors of industry including solar panels, AI and is already being felt in Europe, especially the German car market.

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This week Marcus and I look at the original tiger economies of Southeast Asia of the 1990s. After a decade of strong export growth, Thailand, South Korea, Indonesia and the Philippines began to focus on domestic property investment as money poured in from overseas. Then in 1997, starting with Thailand, cash was sucked out of these economies off the back of grim economic news and a staggering descent began. It's a shame Irish policymakers couldn't learn these lesson in time for our own crash in 2008-2009 as the Asian tigers would have shown the Celtic tiger what happens when you go all in on property development. Hope you enjoy!

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What happens when the belief “sure everyone pays their mortgage” no longer holds as happened in 2007. Developers, then and now, are hugely reliant on bank funding in order to build apartments and houses in volume. After the Euro was adopted here in 2002, buckets off cash were available from European banks, especially German banks, and this cash found its way into Irish banks and then Irish developers. We see how all these big movements contributed to a crash in the world economy and depression in Ireland.

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