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The Economy

The Economy: 1. Inflation

What is inflation, why does it matter, and is someone to blame if it goes up?

• 14 mins

The Economy

The Economy: 2. Interest Rates and Mortgage Rates

What’s the Bank of England got to do with mortgage rates?

• 14 mins

The Economy

The Economy: 3. Economic Growth and GDP

What is economic growth, and what happens if there isn’t any?

• 15 mins

The Economy

The Economy: 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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The Economy

The Economy: 5. Banks

What are banks and what do they do with our money?

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The Economy

The Economy: 6. Recessions

What is a recession and why might one happen?

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The Economy

The Economy: 7. Jobs and Unemployment

Why might your wages be low even if everyone who wants a job, has one?

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The Economy

The Economy: 8. Pensions

Why is it so hard to save for when we’re older?

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The Economy

The Economy: 9. International Trade and Currency Markets

The reason we can eat pineapples and sell aeroplane parts.

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The Economy

The Economy: 10. Inequality

Why are the rich, rich and the poor, poor, and was it always this way?

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The Economy

The Economy: 11. Pricing and discounting

How does pricing work, and when is a bargain really a bargain?

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The Economy

The Economy: 12. Credit

What is credit, and how do we use it?

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The Economy

The Economy: 13. National Debt

What is the national debt?

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The Economy

The Economy: 14. Bankruptcy and insolvency

How does going bankrupt affect us and the economy?

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The Economy

The Economy: 15. Energy market

Our energy bills explained.

• 15 mins

Tech and AI

Welcome to Understand: Tech and AI

Demystifying the technology in our lives.

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Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 1. How do you get connected?

Wi-Fi, broadband, 4G, 5G and now satellites. How do they connect us to the internet?

• 14 mins

Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 2. The Cloud

The cloud has drifted into all our lives, but what - and where - is it?

• 13 mins

Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 3. VR, AR and the Metaverse

What are Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the Metaverse?

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Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 4. Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and the Web version 3.0

Is cryptocurrency dodgy? What is blockchain, and what have they got do do with Web 3.0?

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Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 5. Big Data

Just how big is big data, and what can you do with it?

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Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 6. What is AI?

What is artificial intelligence?

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Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 7. Where is AI working already?

What organisations are already using AI in their systems, and how is it being used?

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Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 8. The Algorithm

How does an algorithm work, and is it possible to beat it?

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Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 9. Will AI take my job?

Is artificial intelligence coming for your job?

• 14 mins

Tech and AI

Tech and AI: 10. Can we control AI?

Is the AI genie out of the bottle or can we control it?

• 13 mins

Israel and the Palestinians

Israel and the Palestinians: 1. The Palestinians

Katya Adler and guests explain the history and context of the decades-long conflict.

• 13 mins

Israel and the Palestinians

Israel and the Palestinians: 2. Israel

Explaining the context of the conflict – we look at what has shaped modern Israel.

• 14 mins

Israel and the Palestinians

Israel and the Palestinians: 3. Hamas

What is Hamas, what do they stand for and what do they want now?

• 14 mins

Israel and the Palestinians

Israel and the Palestinians: 4. The neighbours

How do Lebanon, Hezbollah, Egypt and Jordan view Israel and the Palestinians?

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