4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, Britain in crisis: how not to run a country. Also, how to make sense of China’s president (10:00), and why becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (18:05).
Please subscribe to The Economist for full access to print, digital and audio editions:
www.economist.com/podcastoffer
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Editors' Pigs from the Economist is sponsored by Three Business. |
0:04.1 | It's official. |
0:05.1 | The cost of living crisis is now also a cost of doing business crisis. |
0:09.8 | With Three Business, you can get unbeatable value at a time when saving money matters the |
0:14.3 | most. |
0:15.3 | Their new product Three Business Adapt offers connectivity plans for businesses of any |
0:19.8 | size, with unlimited calls, texts and data for a fixed monthly charge. |
0:25.0 | Get Business Class Service at Market Leading Value. |
0:28.0 | Search Three Business Adapt. |
0:34.8 | It's Monday, the 3rd of October 2022. |
0:38.2 | I'm Adam Roberts, the economist's digital editor. |
0:41.8 | Welcome to Editors' Pigs, where you can hear three highlights from the weekly edition |
0:45.8 | of the economist, Red Allowed. |
0:50.1 | We have two cover stories this week. |
0:52.9 | In Europe, we pick over the wreckage of the worst start to a British government in memory. |
0:58.0 | The 25-minute statement that Quasiqua Tang, Britain's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, gave |
1:04.8 | on September 23rd, was meant to usher in an era of economic growth. |
1:11.3 | Instead, it triggered a crisis, with immense economic and political damage. |
1:17.6 | We argue that Mr Qua Tang and Liz Truss, the Prime Minister, are right to want to boost |
1:22.9 | Britain's anemic rate of growth. |
1:25.2 | They could have set out policies to do so. |
1:28.1 | Instead, only three weeks into the Truss Premiership, their growth agenda may already be damaged |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Economist, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Economist and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.