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One Bold Question is a video-podcast series exploring what becomes possible for UK & Ireland financial services when bold questions challenge conventional thinking. Hosted by Martina Keane, EY UK & Ireland Financial Services Leader, it features candid conversations with industry leaders on the opportunities and challenges shaping the future of UK financial services.

This book is geared to the average citizen with little or no economics background who would like the tools to think critically about economic issues. Many of today's economic issues are obscured by their inherent complexity and the often confusing and conflicting views coming from political talking heads. Sowell, a leading conservative economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, seeks to alleviate this confusion.

*NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait...

Welcome to The Wild Ones podcast, the show where we chat about all things cycling. Hosted by YouTubers and long-time friends Francis, Jimmi and producer Emily, each week we discuss the latest news from the cycling world, share our views on some controversial topics, revealing behind the scenes secrets from our YouTube channel – Cade Media – and throw it over to you, the listeners, to tell us what you really want to talk about when it comes to bikes. We hope you enjoy! Get involved and send us your stuff to wildonespodcast@cademedia.co.uk

Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that explain the world: one drawn from the week’s headlines and the other from just about anywhere else Tooze takes us. Check out Adam Tooze’s column at https://foreignpolicy.com/author/adam-tooze/.

The Best Shopify podcast for Growth 📈. Join the top Shopify brands and ecommece operators as we dive into what really grows your Shopify business! The Best Shopify podcast for ecommerce brands and operators who want real growth. Hosted by Jay Myers, a 17-year Shopify vet and co-founder of Bold Commerce, Shopify1Percent is built for serious Shopify merchants who want practical advice, not theory, and proven strategies used by the best brands on Shopify. Jay has run stores on Shopify since 2009, and co-founded Bold Commerce in 2012, becoming one of the largest Shopify partners ever. Since...

What if weve been lied to about the origins of the opioid epidemic? The modern opioid crisis did not begin with OxyContin, or even with the heroin epidemics of the twentieth century. Its roots reach back to the Age of Discovery, when European merchants broke into the largest consumer market the...

The world is telling you to sell. This book tells you why not to. Markets are red. Headlines scream collapse. Even longtime believers are wavering. And in exactly this moment - when fear is loudest - the rarest asset you can own isn't a trade. It's conviction built on math. Bitcoin One Million...

The Most Valuable 60 Minutes You'll SpendToday! The Full 1 Hour Version of Every MatthewMcConaughey Motivational Video by Motiversity.Powerful advice from McConaughey that will change the way you think, encourage you to take more risks,and help you live your best life.

A million-copy seller, Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern “libertarian” economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others. Called by H. L. Mencken “one of the few economists in history who could really write,” Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliant but concise work. 

All five series of Simon Evans’ BBC Radio 4 show explaining economics through comedy. How do you make money funny? How do you put the comedy in commodity? In this BBC radio show, Simon Evans sets himself the challenge of making economics entertaining through comedic lectures, with the help of special guests including investment gurus, financial journalists and economists. 

This program is read by the author. From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, ruthless investor changed American finance forever. Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King, he was a gambler. In 1966, a fresh college grad, he...

Weekly tips for driving instructors. Whether you are a seasoned ADI, or just starting out as a PDI, this show will offer you valuable insight to help you pass your Standards Check or Part 3, improve as a driving instructor, and run a better driving school. All with tips in under two minutes! For a more in-depth view, be sure to check out The Instructor Podcast.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.”—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta “Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.”—Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla The great...

Two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets. Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world’s foremost financial experts...

Spanning 400 years, Drax of Drax Hall is a story of a plantation owning dynasty that has never been told. It all started when James Drax, one of the first settlers in Barbados in 1627, founded the British sugar industry. His descendants went on to write the book on how to run a slave plantation...

Immerse yourself in the riveting history of the Standard Oil Company as explored through the pioneering work of journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. This compelling exposé unveils the tactics of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who was the richest man in American history at the time. Originally published as a 19-part series in McClures magazine, Tarbells investigation represents a landmark moment in muckraking journalism. It exposes the monopolistic practices of powerful businesses during an era devoid of strong antitrust regulations, igniting a surge of journalistic scrutiny into corporate ethics...

In this important work, Georges Bataille uses his novel economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. He introduces here his concept of the accursed share, the surplus energy that any system, natural or cultural, must expend; it is this expenditure, according to Bataille, that most clearly defines a society. His examples include sacrifice among the Aztecs, potlatch among the Northwest Coast Indians, military conquest in Islam, and Buddhist monasticism in Tibet.

In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the billionaires club of Gates, Buffet, and Zuckerberg, as well as other modern empires whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive impact of their construct of linear progress, have wrought havoc across the world. Their single-minded pursuit of profit has undemocratically enforced uniformity and monocultures, division and separation, monopolies and external control - over finance, food, energy, information, health care, and even relationships.

Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your typical Eton College student. The experience moulded him, challenged him… but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seems to contribute to the harm being done to the...