2025-07-18
49 分钟This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK.
Good Bad Billionaire is back for a brand new season.
And this time, we're shaking things up on the podcast,
looking back on the lives and fortunes of US industry titans.
From one of the founders of the American retail giant Walmart, Sam Walton.
To the aviator, filmmaker, property tycoon,
playboy and original eccentric billionaire, Howard Hughes.
Simon and I are asking if they were good, bad or just another billionaire.
That's Good Bad Dead Billionaire from the BBC World Service.
With me, Zing Zing.
And me, Simon Jack.
Listen now, search for Good Bad... billionaire wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
Hello and welcome to Business Matters.
I'm Roger hearing.
Coming up on the programme today, new measures to regulate cryptocurrencies in the US.
Also,
we hear from the head of the US Federal Reserve in Boston on interest rates and central bank independence.
Plus, Uber gets into robo-taxes.
And how to buy a house when you can't afford it.
The growing trend of co-owning.