Money talks: Easing into a recovery?
Money Talks from The Economist
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🗓️ 4 December 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's On today's program program the ECB seems poised to end its |
| 0:35.4 | quantitative easing so is Europe's recovery now fully underway. Despite the |
| 0:41.0 | glitz and glamour of its fashion showcase, |
| 0:43.0 | I am so ready to rock that runway, you have no idea. |
| 0:47.0 | Is Victoria's secret in danger of going out of fashion. |
| 0:51.0 | And why do intelligent people fall for financial scams? |
| 0:55.0 | Of course I was in a real panic at that point because it became clear to me that I was at risk for all these purchases. |
| 1:02.0 | Welcome to the Economist' money talks. |
| 1:05.0 | On December the 13th, the European Central Bank is to hold its regular policy meeting. |
| 1:10.0 | Back in June, it signaled that this would be when it would announce the end of its asset |
| 1:14.9 | purchases, i.e. its quantitative easing programme or QE. But since then, the Euro-area economy |
| 1:21.8 | has slowed. |
| 1:23.3 | Might that give the ECB pause? |
| 1:26.0 | Rashna Shanboog, a Europe economics correspondent, |
| 1:28.8 | has just been visiting the ECB in its lair in Frankfurt. |
| 1:31.9 | Hello, Rashna. Hi Simon. That's the question, really. Hello, Simon. |
| 1:33.0 | That's the question really. |
| 1:35.0 | Will it give it pause? |
| 1:36.0 | Well, what we've seen is a slowing in the in-ura-era growth, as you said, |
| 1:40.0 | but the ECB views some of that as temporary. |
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