Javier Blas

Javier Blas is the chief energy correspondent at Bloomberg News, and the co-author of The World For Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources (Random House Business).

Border farce

42 min listen

In this week’s episode: is the UK dragging its feet when it comes to Ukrainian refugees? For this week’s cover piece, Kate Andrews and Max Jeffery report from Calais, where they have been talking with Ukrainian refugees hoping to make it to Britain. Kate joins the podcast along with former MEP Patrick O’Flynn to discuss

Will the energy crisis ruin Christmas?

17 min listen

As the temperature starts to fall, the question for the global economy is: how long will energy prices remain high? Industrial production has already started to feel the energy-related price pressures. Many more suppliers are unlikely to make it through the winter. But with the governement divided over bailing out businesses, who should be absorbing