The Fin

A weekly podcast from The Australian Financial Review that examines the biggest stories in business, markets and politics, and why they matter, explained by the best financial journalists in the country.

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Why Donald Trump & Xi Jinping will do a deal
Apr 23, 2025 – 22:44
Election 2025: Why Albo has a spring in his step and Dutton's big bet on defence
Apr 22, 2025 – 31:32
Winners and losers from Trump’s (forever) trade war
Apr 16, 2025 – 23:48
Election 2025: Taking apart both sides’ ‘diabolical’ housing policies
Apr 15, 2025 – 32:59
The fight to save Australia's private hospitals
Apr 9, 2025 – 26:32
Election 2025: The Trump slump and Dutton's 'ham-fisted' backflip
Apr 8, 2025 – 33:08
Has Elon Musk crashed Tesla out of the EV race?
Apr 2, 2025 – 25:08
NSW will decide the election | Labor's Trump's bump | Out of control on the campaign bus
Apr 1, 2025 – 25:08
Introducing: The Fin: Election 2025
Mar 30, 2025 – 01:56
Slater & Gordon, the email scandal & the girl with the cat tattoo
Mar 26, 2025 – 25:38
Election mode: Dutton's Trump problem & the budget no one wanted
Mar 19, 2025 – 26:38
Khaki election: Trump’s ‘Mean Girls’ diplomacy prompts defence rethink
Mar 12, 2025 – 31:28
The billionaire, his ex-lovers and a board exodus
Mar 5, 2025 – 29:08
Succession battle: How Trump could cost Lachlan Murdoch billions
Feb 26, 2025 – 27:26
Did the Reserve Bank cut interest rates too soon?
Feb 19, 2025 – 21:02
Inside the fight to keep girls out of boys' schools
Feb 12, 2025 – 29:11
DeepSeek drama: what the Chinese startup means for the AI race & markets
Feb 5, 2025 – 27:16
Dispatch from Davos: Trump hasn’t killed DEI (yet)
Jan 29, 2025 – 27:30
Summer special: Back from holidays? Time to plan the next one
Jan 22, 2025 – 22:12
Summer special: AFR critics on what to watch, read and listen to this summer
Jan 15, 2025 – 29:06
Rear Window’s year in review: the scoops, the scandals, the power plays
Dec 18, 2024 – 31:34
Bitcoin has broken through US$100,000. Now what?
Dec 11, 2024 – 28:33
Big super reckoning: Are Australians losing faith in the system?
Dec 4, 2024 – 26:14
Social media ban: screen time fix, magic wand or a waste of time?
Nov 27, 2024 – 31:17
'Chussia Anxiety': Why Donald Trump wants to “un-unite” China and Russia
Nov 20, 2024 – 27:10
MinRes investigation: a secret tax deal, company cash and a boat named Anya
Nov 13, 2024 – 32:11
Luxury property & unpaid bills: the two worlds of Sanjeev Gupta
Nov 6, 2024 – 29:03
Joe Aston on Qantas: ‘This is a story about power in the shadows’
Oct 30, 2024 – 28:49
Trump v Harris: Is it too little, too late for the Democrats?
Oct 23, 2024 – 28:01
Richard White: The billionaire, the beauty entrepreneur and the $90k debt
Oct 16, 2024 – 24:54
Will cutting negative gearing fix the property crisis?
Oct 9, 2024 – 26:37
Australia’s most powerful & influential people revealed
Oct 2, 2024 – 32:46
Succession part 2: The Pratts
Sep 25, 2024 – 21:05
Succession part 1: The Murdochs
Sep 18, 2024 – 27:45
Inside the AirTrunk deal: how to build a $24 billion business in nine years
Sep 11, 2024 – 30:19
Where and why house prices are falling this Spring
Sep 4, 2024 – 19:46
Why it's so hard to ban gambling ads
Aug 28, 2024 – 28:14
US election 2024: The next big test for Kamala Harris
Aug 21, 2024 – 31:55
Why PwC can't move on from the tax leaks scandal
Aug 14, 2024 – 28:23
‘A scandal of epic proportions’: why heads could roll at ANZ
Aug 7, 2024 – 21:54
From evangelist to pragmatist: Andrew Forrest’s green hydrogen pivot
Aug 1, 2024 – 24:11
Building bad: Inside the explosive CFMEU investigation
Jul 24, 2024 – 27:26
Bonus episode: Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump?
Jul 22, 2024 – 14:19
Is a 14th rate rise the solution to Australia’s inflation problem?
Jul 17, 2024 – 24:47
Inside Australia's $200b unregulated private credit boom
Jul 10, 2024 – 22:43
Why AUKUS might cost billions & leave us with nothing
Jul 3, 2024 – 30:23
Why the Guzman y Gomez float was 'the story with the lot'
Jun 26, 2024 – 30:09
Europe tilts right. Australia is watching.
Jun 19, 2024 – 28:53
Why native title hasn’t lived up to its promise
Jun 12, 2024 – 29:17
AI is moving to 'the edge'. Here’s why that matters
Jun 5, 2024 – 30:43