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Taking Stock

Taking Stock

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Taking Stock takes a global view of the big business stories and the trends affecting the world economy.

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Taking Stock
Economics
Episodes
  • The Economics of Christmas
    Dec 12 2025

    This week on Taking Stock Susan Hayes Culleton looks at how Christmas is celebrated around the world and the different ways different nations spend their money and their festive season when she talks to Emma Howard Economist at TU Dublin.

    In this month’s ‘Techscape’, with thanks to Renault, Susan talks to Newstalk’s own John Fardy about the ‘cinematic’ scale of the battle between Netflix and Paramount to buy Warner.

    Plus, is the European Single Market dead? Susan talks to Ben Hall and Henry Foy of the Financial Times about the declining belief in the market among European economies.

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    52 mins
  • Healthy and Unhealthy Economics
    Dec 5 2025

    This week on Taking Stock Susan Hayes Culleton looks at the projection by the WHO that global obesity levels will double by 2030 when she talks to Eric Finkelstein, Professor of Health Services Research and Population Health at Duke-NUS Medical School.

    Staying with health she is joined by Conor Pope of the Irish Times to look at why more people are taking out health insurance despite the rising costs.

    Plus, who are ‘Generation Alpha’? Susan talks to Professor Joe Nellis, economic adviser to Baker Tilly Ireland, about the generation born since 2010 and how they differ to all who have gone before.

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    46 mins
  • The financial implications of divorce & what bitcoin's woes tell us about the wider market
    Nov 28 2025

    This week on Taking Stock, Susan Hayes Culleton looks at the financial and legal implications of deciding to separate. Keith Walsh of Keith Walsh Solicitors & Nick Charalambous, Managing Director with Alpha Wealth, join Susan to discuss.

    Is cryptocurrency the new bellwether for problems in the stock market? Joining Susuan to discuss is Kate Martin, Markets Columnist at the Financial Times.

    Plus, Katy Balls, Washington Editor and Columnist with The Times and Sunday Times, outlines how Donald Trump’s biggest problem is sitting in the data centres of Silicon Valley.

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    49 mins
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