The independence of the newly formed Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has been called into question after figures on job losses resulting from Treasury cuts appeared to have been revised down just in time for David Cameron's appearance at PMQs.
The chairman of the OBR Sir Alan Budd faced the Treasury select committee this week where he admitted naivety - but no political interference.
Our economics correspondent Phillip Inman witnessed the hearing and joins us in the studio.
Also this week, we look at the funding crisis engulfing universities.
Business secretary Vince Cable is set to outline his vision for higher education's place in the economy this week. We hear what life is like on the front line from Sukdev Johal of Royal Holloway's management school.
Finallly, Niall Ferguson, author of a new biography of Siegmund Warburg tells us that modern bankers could learn a thing or two from an old-fashioned City gent with wide-ranging tastes in philosophy and literature and a robust moral compass.
