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Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Money with me, Robert Peston.

And me, Steph McGovern. We're back together, Robert.

We are the Travis and Taylor Swift of the podcast world.

Can't keep us apart.

You can't keep us apart.

So there's loads to talk about, despite it being the summer and you would hope things

calm down a bit over the summer, that is not the case when it comes to global

economics if anything things have ramped up once again and we're going to we're going to start

in the states aren't we with stuff going on there and then bring it back to what's happening in

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