Business

Jon Snow speaks with Lord Jim O’Neill, the former Goldman Sachs Chief Economist who resigned as a Treasury Minister in September, about globalisation and modernity.

The IFS is predicting that workers will earn less in “real wages” in 2021 than they did in 2008. Just a day after a budget that was supposed to help families who are “just about managing” or Jams, the IFS analysis has cast new doubt on whether it will really make any difference.

The sustained decline in real wages since the 2008 financial crash is the worst Britain has experienced since the war, and possibly in the last 100 years: that’s the conclusion of the influential think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Professor Mariana Mazzucato, from Sussex University, and Merryn Somerset Webb, editor-in-chief of the financial magazine Moneyweek.

Coming soon: Brexit – the day after. A cliff hanger in every sense of the word. As business leaders warn Theresa May about the prospect of a “cliff edge” of sudden and overnight change when Britain leaves the European Union, the Prime Minister has been trying to calm nerves.

They’re young, they’re smart and they’re tech-savvy, but could they be heading to Germany? Amid all the uncertainty about doing business and working in post-Brexit Britain, Berlin is over here, trying to lure tech sector talent over there.

Business leaders are clamouring for certainty and a post-Brexit plan. Are they going to get it? Our Business Editor Siobhan Kennedy has been talking to some leading figures.

Jam today says the government as the Chancellor pledges more help for families termed the ‘JAMs’ – aka ‘Just About Managing’. But as Philip Hammond warns the economy still faces a sharp challenge will there really be much to go around?

Business Correspondent Helia Ebrahimi discusses the Autumn Statement.

We’re joined by Rebecca Long-Bailey, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury – who’s in Manchester – and, from South London, by Chris Philp – Conservative member of the Treasury Select Committee.

As after the Brexit vote here, the election of Donald Trump sparked a knee-jerk reaction on the markets. But initial falls were not sustained. .

What will a Trump presidency mean for the wider world? How has the world responded to this electoral shock?

There was a sharp fall on the financial markets at the prospect of a new age of political uncertainty.The FTSE, the Dow Jones Futures market and Japan’s Nikkei all plunged in early trading – before recovering ground, Our business correspondent Helia Ebrahimi joins from our London newsroom.