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🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Banks have entered this financial crisis in better health than the previous one. But how sick might they get? Emerging-market lockdowns match rich-world ones but their governments cannot afford such generous handouts. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains how emerging economies might weather the pandemic. And how Silicon Valley's unicorns are losing their sheen. Simon Long hosts
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0:00.0 | But lots of parents having helpful discussions with kids about online safety can be tricky. |
0:06.0 | To help, Google and digital parenting experts, parents on, |
0:10.0 | have put together a list of simple topics you can chat about with your child to kick start the conversation. |
0:16.0 | Questions like, what shouldn't you share online? |
0:19.0 | Or how much screen time is too much? |
0:21.0 | It can be a great way to find a healthier balance for your family online, together. |
0:26.0 | Head to families.google today. |
0:31.0 | Hello, you're listening to Money Talks on Economist Radio. |
0:34.0 | Our weekly podcast on the markets, the economy and the world of business. |
0:39.0 | I'm Simon Long and editor at the Economist, and coming up on today's show, |
0:46.0 | banks have entered the corona crisis in better health than the global financial one. |
0:51.0 | But how sick might they get? |
0:54.0 | You know, there's a lot of money to get. |
0:57.0 | You know, there's a real risk these programs not working as advertised, |
1:02.0 | causes a lot of resentment and the banks get a lot of the blame. |
1:06.0 | Global law editors at Stiglets want how to help emerging economies hit doubly hard by the pandemic. |
1:13.0 | You know, in the United States, you just go here and overnight increase spending |
1:20.0 | by 10% of GDP emerging markets can't do that. |
1:24.0 | And why the magic's fading for unicorns? |
1:28.0 | It was all about gross, gross at all costs, who gives a fake about profits. |
1:33.0 | And that really has shifted in a matter of weeks. |
1:37.0 | The threat of a new financial crisis looms over the global economy, and it's causing worries through the banking system. |
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