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June 03 How to win a trade war: Book discussion with Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
Trade wars are becoming a feature of the modern global economy and are being tied to actual wars too. Britain has played its part by voting to leave the EU, while President Trump has taken trade disruption to a new level. While it can be hard to identify ‘winners’ from trade wars, it’s easy to identify losses – so having the right strategy is crucial, especially for a mid-sized, open economy like the UK.
In a depressingly timely but accessible new book How to Win a Trade War, leading trade experts Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown explore the history, players, and rules of trade, and ask how we prepare for what the future might hold. They explain how trade wars can lead to hot wars, and what the West can learn from China.
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)
Soumaya Keynes – Columnist at the Financial Times and host of The Economics Show podcast
Chad Bown – Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
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37 min
May 20 Earning it back
Are higher living standards the key to electoral success?
Both the Government and the opposition are scrambling for new policies and messages to win back unconvinced voters. Is this new political landscape ultimately shaped by the lack of growth in household incomes? How much of the remainder of this Parliament ought to be focused on living standards? And what options really are there – whoever is sitting in Number 10 – to get incomes on an upward trajectory after two difficult decades?
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)
Jane Green - Professor of Political Science and British Politics
Heather Stewart – Economics editor at the Guardian
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35 min
April 14 A shock to the system
Can the Government – or the public – afford another energy crisis? RF Chief Executive Ruth Curtice speaks to
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt and Chief Executive of Ipsos in the UK and Ireland Kelly Beaver to ask how the Government can respond to pressures on global energy supplies and how the public feel about the prospect of another spike in bills.

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33 min
March 20 False starts?
Why are so many young people both out of work, and not in school? Research Director Lindsay Judge speaks to Principal Economist Nye Cominetti and Chief Executive of the Nuffield Foundation Gavin Kelly, to get to the bottom of who's becoming NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) and why - and how we can reverse that trend.
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36 min
March 19 Understatement of the year?
The Treasury promised us a boring non-event, which on the day was massively over-shadowed by events in the Middle East. Ruth Curtice discusses the merits of annual fiscal events, the difficulty of getting growth going, and what to expect in the Chancellor's upcoming (and unprecedented) second Mais Lecture, with James Smith (Chief Economist at the Resolution Foundation) and Giles Wilkes (Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government).
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35 min
March 19 Who are 'Unsung Britain'?
Britain does not feel like a nation at ease – and hasn’t done for a very long while. By more than two-to-one, Britons last year judged the country to be on the “wrong track” rather than heading in the “right direction”. Ruth Curtice, the Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, discusses the experiences and prospects for the nation's poorer half with Scarlett Maguire and Tom Clark.
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29 min
March 19 Growing pains
How's the Government's growth agenda going? 18 months into a government elected on a mandate of change and growth, and following the publication of Mountain climbing, we're assessing their growth strategy – its intentions, its achievements, and its prospects moving ahead into an uncertain world. Lord David Willetts, the President of the Resolution Foundation, is joined by Sophie Hale, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, and Anna Leach, Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors.
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38 min
March 19 Brave New Welfare
What can Westminster learn from Scotland on reforming disability benefits? Resolution Foundation Research Director Lindsay Judge talks you through the learnings from recent benefit reforms in Scotland, joined by Louise Murphy and Ben Geiger. Read 'Delivering dignity' on our website today to learn more: https://buff.ly/v0J2uQj
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March 18 When the levies break?
How should the Government support households with energy bills? In October 2025, the Resolution Foundation published research assessing how the Government can help families with high energy bills. Our Chief Executive discussed the proposals with Jonathan Marshall (one of our Principal Economists) and Adam Scorer, the Chief Executive of National Energy Action. Tune in to learn about the drivers of Britain’s stubbornly high household energy bills, and how reform of the costs added onto bills offers a route for helping families with the cost of living this winter.
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What's really happening to people’s living standards across Britain – and what can we do to lift them? High Resolution cuts through the noise with sharp analysis and insightful guests. We’ll be exploring the economic debates that actually matter to you - from work, wages and wealth to housing affordability and decisions on tax, benefits and public services.

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