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Money Talks from The Economist

Money talks: The Italian bailout job

Money Talks from The Economist

The Economist

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

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Italy has been forced to bail out two banks at a cost of as much €17bn euros ($19bn). Is that the end of the bleeding in Italy's financial sector? Also, as the iPhone turns ten, we look at how Apple is evolving. And Catherine Mann, Chief Economist at the OECD, tells us how to government can help workers made jobless by globalisation. Hosted by Simon Long.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Simon Long, the Economist's Finance and Economics Editor, and this is Money Talks.

0:09.0

Later in the programme, it's the iPhone's 10th anniversary.

0:13.0

So what's next in store for Apple?

0:15.0

When augmented reality is integrated into the iPhone,

0:18.0

it's quite possible and likely that people will upgrade.

0:21.0

And we hear from the OECD's chief economist Catherine Mann

0:25.0

about helping workers made jobless by globalization.

0:28.0

Why you lost your job isn't really the point.

0:31.0

It's like you did lose your job.

0:32.0

And so how do our programs having to do

0:35.8

with job loss how do they work in general

0:40.3

but to start yet more casualties in the Italian banking system.

0:47.0

After the European Central Bank decided that banker popularity Vicenza and Venetto banker were both failing, Italy's government has been forced

0:54.6

to bail them out at an eventual cost of as much as 17 billion euros, that's $19 billion.

1:01.9

So a decade after the financial crisis, Italy's banks are stonled out of the woods.

1:07.1

They're reported to be carrying bad loans worth an estimated 350 billion euros, that's a third of the Eurozone's total bad debt. I'm joined now from

1:16.4

Milan by the Economist's finance reporter Alexander Fattel. Firstly, could you just describe

1:21.6

simply as possible what this deal involves?

1:25.1

What is the bailout look like?

1:27.1

Basically the Italian government has decided to split the two banks, good assets and bad assets.

1:34.0

So the good assets will be sold for a token

1:38.0

1 euro to in Teza, San Paolo, which is Italy's second biggest bank.

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