Daily: FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION with economist Dr Garry Young

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Government’s emergency measures have saddled Britain with levels of debt unseen outside wartime – and a possible future of mass unemployment. How can we rebuild the economy for a post-COVID future? What’s the scale of the task? And which industries could thrive after the shutdown and which are doomed? DR GARRY YOUNG, co-Deputy Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, sets out our possible futures to Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:24.8	Today, the economy is terrifying right now.
1:27.8	The biggest recession since 1707 is supposedly on the cards.
1:31.3	Government is propping up business in ways unseen outside of wartime
1:34.9	and we are bracing ourselves for unemployment that could make the early 1980s look like a mild blip.
1:39.6	How are we going to get out of this? How can we pay off the massive debts incurred by lockdown and what are the industries
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