Money talks: How do you solve a problem like Brasilia?
Money Talks from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 21 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 and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Can anyone fix Brazil? |
| 0:28.0 | Gier Bolsonaro, a far-right ex-army officer, |
| 0:33.2 | looks set to inherit the presidency in three weeks time. |
| 0:36.0 | Unless he comes out on day one and says, |
| 0:38.0 | here's my proposal for the fixed pensions |
| 0:39.8 | and somehow shoves it through Congress in about five minutes. There's going to be some destabilising |
| 0:44.1 | noises coming out of Brazil. |
| 0:45.9 | Is London the dirty money capital of the world? |
| 0:48.2 | Britain just doesn't have the number of investigators who are skilled in high-end money laundering cases to tackle the corrupt assets problem. |
| 0:57.5 | It's been nearly a decade since the last global recession. |
| 1:00.5 | Are we do another one? |
| 1:01.5 | When the next downturn strikes, unless it's five or ten years from now, we'll be starting |
| 1:06.3 | almost immediately with our backs against the wall. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm Helen Joyce, the finance editor of the Economist. |
| 1:11.6 | Welcome to Money Talks. The first round of Brazil's |
| 1:14.7 | presidential election resulted in a much stronger showing for Jaier Bolsonaro |
| 1:18.6 | the far-right populist candidate than was expected. He got 46% of the valid vote. He's going to go head to head |
| 1:25.0 | with Fernando Adagji of the Leftist Workers Party who received 29% of the vote. |
| 1:30.4 | Latin America's largest nation has a huge public finance problem and the next president will have to get to grips with it. |
| 1:37.0 | John O'Sullivan is the economist Buttonwood columnist. |
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