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When Lew Frankfort joined Coach, it was a family run, wholesale handbag business worth six million dollars. He spent 35 years at the company, from opening the company's first shop to growing the busin...

Forty years ago Japan made more than half of the world's semiconductors. Today, it produces just over 10%. But the country has big ambitions to turn that around. We hear from the CEO of a company at t...

When Slovakia was part of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, the cars it made were noisy, thirsty and slow by western standards at the time. But when Volkswagen bought the car-maker Skoda, that was ...

In the second of two programmes, we look at Donald Trump's record on the economy one year into his second presidential term. Today, we are asking is the United States still facing a cost of living cru...

Twelve months into Donald Trump’s second term as President, we examine what it’s meant for the US workforce. For government workers it has been a year of cuts, sackings and Elon Musk’s now disbanded D...

We meet retail turnaround expert Joanna Reynolds, the woman behind the revival of the Folio Society, one of Britain’s oldest publishing houses. Ten years ago, the company was losing money and facing ...

Festive celebrations at Christmas and New Year often involve increased alcohol consumption in many parts of the world. For some, that’s followed by a decision to take a break from drinking. It's becom...

Outrage has been growing in Iran over the country's struggling economy. Any growth this year or next looks unlikely. Protests starting in the capital have spread around the country, driven by mounting...

The power of the global bond market seems to have grown in recent years, to the extent that it can now dictate government policy and even topple political leaders. How much clout do the debt markets a...

We explore how the world became so dependent on bonds, those IOUs from governments and firms that helped build the modern economy. Bonds are often dismissed as a dull corner of finance, but behind th...