Rear Vision — How History Shaped Today

Since the 1970s central banks around the world have increasingly become “independent” of government. They’ve developed that way over time to ensure that monetary policy isn’t impacted by partisan political motives. But there are those who now seek to turn the clock back and to rein in that independence. The current US president is at the front of the pack.
Guests:
Cristina Bodea – Professor of political science, Michigan State University
John Hawkins – Head of the Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra https://Dr Isaac Gross
Isaac Gross - Senior lecturer in Economics, Monash University
Links:
David Marr's Late Night Live interview with biographer RICHARD VAGUE about the US banker Thomas Willing

Bangladesh is having its first free and fair election in over 18 years.
Rear Vision looks back at the tumultuous history of this young nation.

Only a few decades ago China was known as the land of the bicycle – today it’s an automotive goliath. The PRC is now the world’s biggest car manufacturer and exporter. It also has the largest domestic car market. We explore how it achieved such a dramatic turnaround in only a few short decades. And what role European and American car makers inadvertently played in creating a super rival. 
Guests: 
Ilaria Mazzocco – Chinese business and economic expert, Center for Strategic and International Studies 
Dr Tessa Thorniley – freelance business journalist 
Zeyi Yang – technology journalist and senior writer, WIRED 
Mike Colias – Us Autos Editor, Reuters

Since the start of the 20th century, oil has been the lifeblood of global development. Today, the story behind oil — and the politics of supplying oil and denying oil.

From sanctions to tariffs to seizing oil fields — it feels like we've entered a new age of economic warfare. But experts say we're really just returning to the past. To the time before the rules-based international order was established at the end of the Second World War.
Gunboat diplomacy it seems is once again de rigueur.
Guests
William Alan Reinsch — Senior advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Saadia Zahidid — Economist and Managing Director of the World Economic Forum
Markus Jaeger — Adjunct professor, International and Public Affairs, Columbia SIPA
Abraham Newman — Professor of Government, Georgetown University. Author of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt/Penguin 2023)
Hugo Slim — Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, University of Oxford