As chief executive of the world's largest independent steel trading company, how does Ralph Oppenheimer cope with risk - and what influence do derivative traders have on his business? Evan Davis finds out.

Nowadays, you might be offered the option of 'locking in' an exchange rate when shopping overseas - in effect, paying in your home currency rather than the local one. It can be an expensive mistake, warns Jay L Zagorsky.

An important aspect of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types of credit they can or cannot access. This free course, You and your money, explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context.

Want to understand the question of being inside or outside the European Customs Union - and why it matters? Our collection of short videos will help make things a little clearer.

Whether you support Britain’s exit from the EU or not, the current situation is not good news, say Michael Ellington and Costas Milas.

During the recent election campaign, the Tories insisted there was no such thing as a magic money tree. But, as Alan Shipman explains, low bond yields might be the next best thing.

Donald Trump is proudly acclaiming his great economic data. But is he actually enjoying a boom handed to him by President Obama? Gabriella Legrenzi considers the evidence.

Alan Shipman explains how a substantial number of manual and professional workers also switched to support Thatcher in the 1979 general election.

With global warming and climate change increasing, what can we do to tackle this problem? This album explores the economics of lowering carbon emissions and how Britain is tackling this problem, through expert analysis and opinions on carbon taxes, carbon reduction, renewable energy and environmental damage. This material forms part of The Open University course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy.