Was the budget too harsh on small and medium businesses? How much pain will ‘working people’ feel from the tax changes? Is the OBR right that this mega budget won’t increase the size of the economy over five years? Steph and Robert discuss.

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Robert and Steph assess Reeves’ ambitions for the most important budget since the 1980s, whether hypothecated taxes work, and how Russia, China and India are plotting the biggest attack on America's economic power in history.

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Martin Lewis, the MoneySavingExpert, joins Robert and Steph to crunch the numbers on how Labour got it wrong on the winter fuel payment, the scandal of councils’ vicious debt collection, how schools are failing our children and why, despite suing Facebook, scammers are still getting away with using his face.

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Steph and Robert talk to leading economist and investor Mohamed El-Erian about how growth is the only solution to our national debt burden, how he would re-write the fiscal rules to allow for much more public investment and why central banks must increase their inflation targets from 2% to 3%

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Former Trump staffer and The Rest Is Politics US host, Anthony Scaramucci joins Steph and Robert to explain why Trump’s planned interference with the Fed would wreck the US economy, why America’s billionaires like Musk don’t care and why he’s backing Harris.

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What options does Rachel Reeves have to allow for more investment, how can we be more productive as a service economy and does the NHS have a management problem? Steph and Robert answer your questions.

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Robert and Steph are joined by former Shadow Chancellor of The Exchequer, John McDonnell, to discuss what he thinks Rachel Reeves should and shouldn't do in the upcoming budget, how child poverty should be Labour's number one priority, and how he feels about this Labour government in general.

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Robert speaks to economist Danny Blanchflower about the surge in mental ill-health among young people, which his global research shows is linked to the proliferation of smart phones since 2014. As a former member of the Bank of England’s MPC, he also talks about what’s gone wrong at the Bank.

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Robert and Steph discuss how changing pensions tax relief in Rachel Reeves’s budget could lead to strikes by public sector workers, why putting up capital gains tax rates may see less money raised by government and why private equity giant Blackstone is investing £10bn in the North East to build the biggest AI data centre in Europe.

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Robert and Steph are joined by Lord Richard Layard, a 90 year old economist who has dedicated his life to researching and encouraging politicians to consider the happiness of their populations when taking decisions. 

They also discuss whether faster growing economies increase wellbeing and how the presence of women in politics has positive effects on the people who live in those countries (most of the time).

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