Podcasts: Introduction

Consumers cut back on non-essentials

Falling supply forces oil prices to record highs

The economic price of a perfect education

BAA passes go and collects large price rises

The power of competition in the UK energy markets

The environmental impact of higher taxes

Privatisations from Slovenia to Sweden

Google searching for new opportunities

A tale of unhappy shareholders at M&S

Small companies in a bear squeeze

What price a national minimum wage

Iceland coming out of winter darkness...

Inflation easy to define but harder to measure

US Economy heading into recession

The rise and rise of Chinese inflation

Brown's golden rule under threat

Current Account deficits and surpluses

End of cash and carry trades

Uk Car industry up the junction