Understand The Economy Episodes Episode guide
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15. Energy Market
Our energy bills explained.
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14. Bankruptcy and Insolvency
How does going bankrupt affect us and the economy?
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13. National Debt
What is the national debt?
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12. Credit
What is credit and how do we use it?
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11. Pricing and Discounting
How does pricing work, and when is a bargain really a bargain?
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10. Inequality
Why are the rich, rich and the poor, poor, and was it always this way?
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9. International Trade and Currency Markets
The reason we can eat pineapples and sell aeroplane parts.
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8. Pensions
Why is it so hard to save for when we’re older?
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7. Jobs and Unemployment
Why might your wages be low even if everyone who wants a job, has one?
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6. Recessions
What is a recession and why might one happen?
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5. Banks
What are banks and what do they do with our money?
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4. Bonds, Gilts, Stocks and Shares
Who lends the government money and why? And what exactly does the stock market do?
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3. Economic Growth and GDP
What is economic growth, and what happens if there isn’t any?
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2. Interest Rates and Mortgage Rates
What’s the Bank of England got to do with mortgage rates?
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1. Inflation
What is inflation, why does it matter, and is someone to blame if it goes up?
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Trailer
Everything you need to know about the economy and what it means for you.