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BBC Business Editor Today Programme on BBC Radio 4 Co-Presenter Good Bad Billionaire - Best Business Podcast 2024

Joined April 2009
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Good Bad Billionaire: How reluctant entrepreneur Sir Mo Ibrahim helped connect Africa with telecoms tech 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/4A7UIHe
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Jack Dorsey founded a social media behemoth, but made more cash from card payments. 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/47GwCXT
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Gautam Adani: The multiple mogul 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/4s23SCg
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Nelson Peltz made his money via some contentious methods, but fame came via his daughter. 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/3W5Tayy
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Two things to note as borrowing costs in advanced economies stay firmly in focus: The UK government paid a 5.82% yield on its £4.25 billion bond issuance today, the highest ever recorded by the Debt Management Office. Amazon is launching its debt sterling bond offering, illustrating how US tech giants are increasingly diversifying into international bond markets. #economy #markets #bonds #uk @amazon
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The Standard of Living, a new drama about economist superstar John Maynard Keynes, opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 21 September. @BBCSimonJack speaks to award-winning actor Rory Kinnear about taking on the role and Keynes’ lasting legacy.
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FYI: My thoughts on the recent surge in yields, yesterday’s Treasury buyback announcement, and what’s next. nytimes.com/2026/08/20/opini… #economy #markets #bonds #yields @nytimes
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Great discussion with @elerianm on Newsnight tonight on multi decade highs on long term Govt bond yields… he really pins this on the competition in financing markets from giant AI investments
"What we've seen is an enormous rise in borrowing costs, the driver is the US..." Economist Mohamed El-Erian explains the latest moves in the global bond markets and how they’re impacting the UK. #Newsnight
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Will Andy Burnham allow North Sea oil and gas drilling to go ahead? After public consultations on the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields close, business editor @BBCSimonJack says he expects the decisions to come 'in a number of weeks'.
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Tao Huabi went from childhood poverty in China to building a chilli oil empire. 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/4bOOYs7
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My supremely talented colleagues in BBC Salford @BBCSport getting worldwide acclaim for this, quite rightly… this is BBC DNA passed down the decades… exported with appreciation for Britain across the globe… 👏🏾 proper link ⬇️
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MrBeast has the biggest channel on YouTube with more than 500m subscribers - but are the stunts he films exploitative? 📺 @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money - watch on YouTube: youtu.be/rR4UyJcYoOI
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How Cristiano Ronaldo went from childhood poverty to record-breaking footballer. 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/4otXiCB
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Thank you @BBCSimonJack for allowing me to speak to BBC about my experience as trader at Lehman Brothers. It was surreal standing outside the old Lehman Europe HQ in Canary Wharf and recounting the stories of the days/weeks leading up their collapse in September 2008. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3p…
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I joined @BBCWorldatOne to discuss with @BBCSimonJack, Dame DeAnne Julius and Stephen Moore the severity of this economic shock, recession risks, rates and stagflation. Listen 👇 (29:10-40:45) (1/3) bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002tp…
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How Toto Wolff became the most successful boss in Formula One... 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/3NhfYr4
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Larry Ellison: Winning the database wars. 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/4tPWTgf
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Elizabeth Holmes's Silicon Valley dream became one of its biggest corporate scandals 🎧 From celebs and CEOs to sport stars and tech titans, @BBCSimonJack @misszing find out how the world's billionaires made their money bbc.in/4qHj0Ts
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bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002r4… @BBCSimonJack with Jim O'Neill economist+advisor to Lab+Cons 8.10 on state of the #economy, #productivity labour cf capital Glass *half full*. See purchasing managers’ index. Need for political stability. Borrow to invest. Govt “should” get closer to #EU
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