Money with David Buik and Michael Wilson

This week David is joined by former Bank of England Chief economist and now chief executive of the Royal Society for Arts, Andy Haldane and Simon French, Managing Director and Head of Research at Panmure Gordon. Between them they discuss the state of the economy, the latest GDP figures, whether the latest budget will do anything for growth and what exactly has been the US Biden experiment...

In this special episode of the Money podcast, David and Michael are joined by Simon French, Managing Director, Head of Research at Panmure Gordon, to discuss what might be the last fiscal event before a general election. Did the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, blow the budget or did he manage to pull a rabbit out of the hat?

THIS WEEK DAVID & MICHAEL SPEAK TO KELD VAN SCHREVEN OF KR1, EUROPE'S LEADING DIGITAL ASSET INVESTMENT COMPANY FOCUSED ON DECENTRALISED AND OPEN-SOURCE BLOCKCHAIN NETWORKS. THEY DISCUSS THE RECENT SURGE IN CRYPTOCURRENCY, AND WHAT EXACTLY IS BITCOIN AND THE BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK IT SITS ON.

This week David and Michael are joined by Carol Bell, former Managing Director of the Global Oil & Gas Group at the Chase Manhattan Bank, former board member at the Development bank of Wales, Director at the Football association of Wales, and a professional analyst in the Energy sector, an advocate of net zero. How can net zero and business work together? Carol talks about thinking differently about energy, and how we use it, and how that needs to change.

David & Michael speak to Robert Lea, the industrial editor at The Times, who has been a financial and business journalist for the past three decades. As we head towards a general election, and a likely change of government, Labour makes a U-turn on its £28bn green pledge, so what now for the UK's industrial strategy and climate credentials in the wider world?