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1 big thing

Economic déjà vu

1 big thing

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The British pound has hit the lowest point against the US Dollar since the 1790s. On Monday, the pound was at 1.03 compared to the dollar. This moment feels eerily similar to 2007, at the beginning of the Great Recession. But, as Axios’ Felix Salmon and Courtenay Brown tell us, that doesn’t mean we’re facing the same economic catastrophe now. Plus, Russian anger keeps growing in response to Putin’s draft. And, NASA takes on an asteroid. Guests: Axios' Felix Salmon, Courtenay Brown and Alison Snyder. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Fonda Mwangi and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: British pound gets pounded as Truss tax cut plan sinks in The world economy has an ominous August 2007 kind of feeling Russian military recruitment offices come under attack after draft order NASA is about to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:12.3

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0:16.2

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0:22.1

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0:26.1

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0:34.2

Good morning. Welcome next year's today. It's Tuesday September 27th. I'm Nailibu. Here's what we're covering today Russian anger keeps

0:42.7

growing in response to Putin's draft plus NASA takes on an asteroid. But first global economic deja vu. That's today's one big thing.

0:56.1

The British pound has hit an all-time low against the US dollar and when we say all-time low, I mean since the

1:06.6

1790s on Monday the pound was one dollar in three cents. That's just one sign that this moment feels

1:14.4

eerily similar to 2007 at the beginning of the Great Recession. But as Exeos' Felix Salmon and

1:21.6

Courtney Brown tell us that doesn't mean we're facing the same economic catastrophe now. They're here to go deeper into all of this.

1:29.3

Hi Felix. Hi Courtney. Good morning, Nana. Thank you for having me. Felix first. Can you explain why the British pound is down more than 20%

1:39.8

against the dollar just this year? Britain is a small and fragile country. Nailibu and I say this as a Brit. It kind of cuts

1:49.8

itself off from Europe. That was its big anchor in 2020 when it finally did Brexit and now it has nothing keeping it

1:58.2

afloat when you have a crazy economic policy like they just announced big tax cut which was going to hugely

2:07.3

expand the amount of money that the government needs to borrow. There's no obvious way that they can

2:12.1

pay for it. There's huge bills coming due and that's what financial markets do when countries

2:18.2

kind of lose track of their finances and lose control of their finances is the markets just

2:23.7

mark down the currency and that's exactly what's happened in the UK. So how significant is it that

2:29.0

financial markets reacted to the UK as if it was basically a developing country's economy rather than

2:35.8

the six largest in the world? I think it's very significant. I think it really drives

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