Show Notes
Robin Wigglesworth, Financial Times journalist and author of The Fabulous Debt, joins us to explain how government borrowing works, why rising gilt yields matter, and what the legacy of Liz Truss's disastrous mini-budget tells us about the limits of political power.
Robin also explains why government debt isn't necessarily a bad thing, how Britain historically used borrowing to industrialise and build its economy, and why countries such as Canada and Sweden offer lessons in tackling difficult public-finance problems.
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