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Hello, I'm Helen Joyce, the finance editor of the Economist. Welcome to Money

Talks. Coming up on the programme, Italy is going head-to-head with the European

Commission with its new budget plans. The government really doesn't seem to have

much interest in boosting the sustainable growth rate of the economy. Elon Musk

versus the regulators. He, like a certain argument of the White House, tweets at

odd hours of the day and night and often says things that are aspirational rather

than demonstrably true. How do you replace the world's most important number? I

know you fully appreciate the importance of this index, how widely used it is for

all kinds of transactions. First, should we be worried about Italy's

sparking the next Eurozone crisis? The country's new-ish coalition government

and its first budget plans to run a deficit of 2.4% a GDP for the next three

years. It's sidelined its own finance minister, Giovanni Trier, who would

want to get the budget nearer to balanced, and the question is how that's going

to go down in Brussels. The Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini,

has said that his government will put the interests of Italians ahead of those

of the Uburocrats. Ratchan Ashanboag is our Europeconomics correspondent.

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