
24/04/2021 GMT
The Roaring 20's was a decade of economic prosperity with mass consumerism, cheap credit and cultural change following a time of crisis and the First World War.
The Roaring 20's was a decade of economic prosperity with mass consumerism, cheap credit and cultural change following a time of crisis and the First World War. 100 years later, we may not have jazz, Coco Chanel or the Great Gatsby, but governments around the world have unleashed stimulus packages worth trillions of dollars to combat the economic impact of the pandemic. So will the economic malaise of the 2020's be harder to overcome? We ask leading economists whether or not history could be about to repeat itself with a cycle of boom and bust. Also on this weekend's show, the boss of US tech giant Cisco Chuck Robbins explains how remote working, video calls and streaming hours of TV are making us all ever more dependent on the internet.
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