Business Weekly
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week saw the rather unedifying spectacle of the first 2020 US presidential debate. Did either of the candidates offer solid policies on the economy or the environment?
As further investigations shed more light on Donald Trump’s financial affairs we’ll ask why he has been so reluctant to make them public.
We’ll also find out why Facebook is threatening to ban all news on its Australian sites and ask whether clubbing can survive during a pandemic.
Business Weekly is presented by Lucy Burton and produced by Joshua Thorpe.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, if a week is a long time in politics, a day is a long time in business at the moment, |
| 0:06.1 | and it can be exhausting trying to keep up with all the latest developments. |
| 0:10.1 | That's why we've interrupted your Business Daily pod feed to bring you Business Weekly, |
| 0:14.4 | a new weekend program which brings you an hour of the most interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking stories you might have missed from the BBC's business team. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello and welcome to Business Weekly. I'm Lucy Burton. |
| 0:32.9 | Will you shut up, man, five words that defined the first debate between the two men vying for one of the most powerful jobs in the world. |
| 0:42.0 | Joe Biden's exasperation with President Trump's 70-odd interruptions on Tuesday night was clear, |
| 0:48.3 | as bickering, personal insults and a failure to criticise white supremacists characterize the debate in Ohio. |
| 0:56.1 | The two men discussed the handling of the coronavirus pandemic |
| 0:59.2 | and the president's subsequent revelation that he has COVID-19 |
| 1:03.3 | will ensure that the virus stays firmly at the front of voters' minds. |
| 1:08.0 | So did Americans have a chance to learn anything new about jobs, economic or |
| 1:13.2 | environmental policy? We'll be taking a look in just a moment, as well as finding out more |
| 1:18.6 | about President Trump's tax returns, just why was he so shy about producing them. And later |
| 1:24.4 | in the program, we'll head to Australia to find out why the government there |
| 1:28.3 | thinks Facebook and Google should pay for news that appears on their sites. First, though, |
| 1:33.3 | you've probably all heard the angrier parts of the first presidential debate in Ohio. So let's |
| 1:39.0 | cut straight to the chase and see what the candidates say they can do for the economy. |
| 1:43.8 | My economic plan would create seven million more jobs than his in four years, number one, |
| 1:49.5 | and number two, it would create an additional $1 trillion in economic growth |
| 1:54.2 | because it would be about buying American that we have to, |
| 1:58.5 | we're going to make, the federal government spend $600 billion year on everything from |
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