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Episode 41: What Net Zero Is Actually Costing You — Part 2: Who’s Really Footing the Bill? (opens the original)
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Britain says its carbon emissions are down 54% since 1990. That sounds extraordinary. But there’s another number that tells a very different story. When you count the emissions created around the world to produce the things Britain actually consumes, the reduction discussed in this episode is closer to 20% . The gap comes partly from the difference between territorial emissions — what is produced inside Britain — and consumption emissions — what is produced on our behalf elsewhere. In Part Two o
Episode 40: What Net Zero Is Actually Costing You — Part 1 (opens the original)
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Net Zero is usually presented as a simple transition from dirty fossil fuels to clean renewable energy . But there’s a problem with that story. There is no such thing as clean energy. The wind may be renewable. The turbine is not. Sunlight may be free. The solar panel is not. Every energy system requires materials, infrastructure, land, mining, manufacturing and eventually disposal. The real question isn’t whether an energy source has consequences. It’s what those consequences are — and whether
Episode 39: Gordon Brown’s £5 Billion Pension Tax Raid — The Day Britain Stopped Owning Itself (opens the original)
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In 1997, Gordon Brown abolished the dividend tax credit received by pension funds — a change expected to raise the Treasury around £5 billion a year . His own officials warned that it could knock roughly £50 billion from the value of existing pension funds and force employers to inject billions more to repair the damage. But this episode is not the simplistic story that one Chancellor single-handedly destroyed British pensions. We follow what happened next: new accounting rules made pension defi
Episode 38: The Day the Music Stops: What Happens to Your Money If the Dollar Loses Its Crown? (opens the original)
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For the last 15 years, American shares have dominated global markets. Brilliant companies played a huge part — but there was another force underneath them: the dollar’s extraordinary position at the centre of the global financial system. But what happens if that advantage slowly begins to fade? In this episode, I look at why the dollar doesn’t need to collapse for your investments to be affected, how America could remain successful while US shares deliver disappointing real returns, and why a gr
Episode 37: The Exorbitant Privilege — Part 1: Why American Shares Beat Everything Else (opens the original)
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Most people have no idea that their supposedly “global” pension is heavily invested in America. And there’s a reason. Over the last 16 years, American companies genuinely crushed much of the developed world on profit growth. But that wasn’t the whole story. US investors also benefited from rising valuations, a strengthening dollar and something no other major economy possesses: the privilege of issuing the currency the world depends on. That creates enormous global demand for dollars and America
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