One of the most striking developments in the past few years has been the disenfranchisement felt by many towards business and politics, particularly among the young, to the extent that it’s become a threat to the very continuation of the free market and capitalism. Gavin Oldham, Chairman of The Share Centre and of The Share Foundation, joins our host Simon Rose to discuss a set of proposals he has developed intended to introduce a more egalitarian form of capitalism, giving everyone in our society the opportunity to benefit from wealth creation enabled by the free market.
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Bitcoin recently hit a new high of $5000. Expert on cryptocurrencies and UK Managing Director at trading and investment platform eToro, Iqbal Gandham, joins Simon Rose to discuss what cryptocurrencies actually are, the technology behind them, the risks and what investors should be looking out for.
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Steve Caplin looks at cigarette butt-picking Dutch crows, folding dual-screen smartphones, sanitised door plates, Facebook's inability to count and a robot mop.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Steve Caplin looks at Dubai's police hover bikes, Google Maps on Mars and other planets, a rubberised car, Oculus Go, an electric E-type Jag, Ikea's smart lighting and the Mobu cable clip.
Guests: Steve Caplin
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Helal Miah of the Share Centre discusses numbers from Convatec, Merlin, Reckitts and Unilever and looks forward to the main banks reporting.
Guests: Helal Miah
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James Cameron-Wilson looks at LEGO Ninjago Movie, The Snowman, Polish film Botoks (#5!) and The Party, also reviewing the DVD/BluRay release of the 1968 Peter Sellers/Blake Edwards comedy The Party.
Guests: James Cameron Wilson
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In our first episode of Modern Mindset, Adam Cox has a discussion with Perry Carpenter, a cyber security evangelist, talking about the growing issues concerning phishing and ransomware and how emails play to the human emotions of fear, curiosity and greed. A warning of modern day tactics by someone who has been on the front line of cyber security his whole working life.
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On the first episode of Mobile news we speak with Honor UK’s Sales and Marketing Director Wilkin Lee about its ethos, advertising approach and their technology developments. We also spoke with Will Black, a Senior Policy Advisor at FSB about EE’s recent voice outage last week, and the effect this can have on small business.
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Original Broadcast: Motley Fool Show
Want to keep up with the latest earnings updates from the States? Well join Chris Hill and the Motley Fool Radio Show team here on Share Radio - direct from Washington DC for news, views and analysis of the US stocks which matter. In this week's show, Delta flies higher on earnings. Wells Fargo slips on higher legal costs. Domino's drops despite strong sales. And MercadoLibre sells off on concerns over Amazon. Plus, NYU business professor Scott Galloway talks about his new book.
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On this week’s podcast, Simon Lambert, Rachel Rickard Straus and Georgie Frost take a look at Professor Thaler’s work, his prize, behavioural economics and the whole nudge idea. Does this all really work? Behavioural economists believe a gentle nudge in the right direction can make you richer and over recent years they have managed to win the ears of governments around the world – including the UK’s. This week one of the thinkers who helped spread the word on behavioural economics, Professor Richard Thaler, won a Nobel Prize for economics. In the old world of economics textbooks, people behaved perfectly rationally and made the right choices. In the real world, of course, we don’t. We make irrational decisions that fly in the face of economic theory all the time. Yet, our irrational behaviour can be an asset. It means that we can be nudged into making the best choices. Professor Thaler’s catch-all advice is whether you’re a business or a government, if you want people to do something, make it easy. In Britain, one example adopted by the Government has been pensions. Instead of getting people to opt into a pension, we’re now automatically enrolled and then offered the chance to opt out. It’s now easier to have a pension than not to. Unsurprisingly, more people now save into pensions.
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