Falling pound, the Queen?s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The value of the pound against other currencies has been incredibly volatile ever since the Chancellor?s ?mini-budget?. We ask how much we should worry and look at how much taxes will really fall. Also did 4.1 billion people really watch the Queen?s funeral? Gas prices are falling ? so why aren?t energy bills? There are early signs that new covid variants could cause another spike in cases over the winter. And with the government lifting a moratorium on fracking, we ask how seismic a number the current limit of 0.5 on the Richter scale actually is.
Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Jon Bithrey Reporters: Charlotte McDonald, Nathan Gower Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson Sound Engineer: James Beard
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| 0:40.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. Hello and welcome to more or less. We're your weekly guide |
| 0:47.3 | to the numbers all around us in the news and have there been any numbers this week? Only joking, |
| 0:53.0 | there have been numbers. |
| 0:55.4 | Many numbers. |
| 0:58.7 | As people are muttering about the next wave of COVID, |
| 1:00.6 | worst sequel ever, if you ask me, |
| 1:02.7 | we look at what the data are telling us. |
| 1:04.3 | Gas prices are falling. |
| 1:06.0 | Why aren't energy bills? |
| 1:08.7 | To celebrate the reintroduction of fracking, |
| 1:10.6 | we delve deep into the Richter scale, |
| 1:17.6 | and we'll ask whether it's true that 4.1 billion people watched the funeral of Queen Elizabeth 2nd. But first, there's the small matter of what some economic commentators are calling a full-blown |
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