Alcohol free and a BLT?

Wake Up to Money

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington speaks to Alan Auerbach, a professor of Economics and Law at the University of California Berkeley, about President Trump's first major speech since he returned to the White House.

Meanwhile, shares in the US have fallen once again as concerns grow that the President's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China will lead to a wider trade war.

Also, supermarket Sainsbury's has added two non-alcoholic beer options to its meal deal offer. But will it catch on?

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0:00.0	On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:05.7	And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:08.4	In this series, we're going to have a planet off.
0:10.9	I feel like Jupiter wins.
0:12.9	And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.
0:16.0	We're talking about your bog standard.
0:17.9	Ice, not the fancy one.
0:20.2	Science with funny bits.
0:22.0	The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:24.2	Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
0:29.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:33.5	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:36.6	Hello, welcome. It is Wake Up to Money.
0:39.2	And today we're hearing about billions in spending cuts.
0:43.0	That's what government insiders have told us could be on the cards from the Treasury.
0:46.9	We'll be discussing what that might look like, the impact on public services, on jobs, why it needs to be done over the other side of the sea. President
0:57.2	Donald Trump has a load of announcements in his address to the US Congress. And he said,
1:02.3	We are just getting started. So if you think we've done our Trump chat for 5am in this presidency, you'll be thinking wrong.
1:14.9	We're going to be hearing more from across the pond about that.
1:18.0	And have you been getting tired of having the same meal deal every day?
1:21.2	They're a classic, aren't they, in the particularly office life purchase.
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