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Money Talks from The Economist

Money talks: Don’t bank with me Argentina

Money Talks from The Economist

The Economist

News, Business, Economy, Finance & Economics, Business News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As Argentina starts talks with the IMF, we ask why Argentina’s currency crisis is causing financial wobbles in other emerging markets.? Simon Long explores whether digital technology can reach people who don’t have access to bank accounts. And, Philip Coggan transforms into Dr Who and looks back at 12 years of his Buttonwood column. Helen Joyce hosts

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0:40.0

Coming up on the programme, how digital technology is reaching people who don't have access to banks.

0:46.0

Digital identity in the emerging markets is people having a smartphone connected to the internet.

0:52.0

And if you give them a financial identity

0:54.3

without having the digital identity they continue to belong to the world of

0:58.4

have nots. And Philip Kogan transforms into Dr. Who gets in his Tardus and looks back at 12 years of his buttonwood column.

1:05.6

The financial markets like a teenager who crashes a car and leaves their parents with the bill

1:10.4

have done a lot better than the economy.

1:11.9

The global economy has never really recovered to the health it was before that crash and the financial markets have.

1:17.5

First, the last couple of weeks have seen torrid times in Argentina where the central bank has had to respond to the currency

1:24.7

weakening steadily and then faster and faster by raising interest rates an extraordinary

1:28.8

three times. The policy rate now stands at 40%. That's created worries not just about Argentina,

1:35.0

but about emerging markets more broadly.

1:37.0

Simon Cox joins me down the line.

1:39.0

Simon, last week's orbit of a wobble in emerging markets.

1:42.0

What was that about? There were a couple of a wobble in emerging markets. What was that about?

1:42.5

There were a couple of reasons, one global, the other more specific to Argentina.

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