Hello and welcome to the Money Talks quiz the highlight of the year at Economist Towers.

I'm Philip Kogan, your host.

Money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money,

money.

We'll be asking a series of questions about finance and economics.

And we invited some of the finest mines and the magazine to take part.

Unfortunately, none of them could make it.

So instead, we have Simon Long, the Finance and Economics Editor of the Economist and your usual money talks host. Simon, hello.

Hello and I sound like...

No, oh, all right.

We're going to come round about.

So we're going to come round.

Simon, hello.

Hello Philip. Ratchnachshambogue, business correspondence to the economist,

and author of one of the most talked about papers on the

Bank of England website.

Hello.

And last but not most, Andrew Palmer, our Business Affairs editor who oversees all our business, finance, Economics and Science Coverage, and Thus, really ought to win.

Andrew, hello.

Hello, Philip.

Money, money, money. Money.

Money. Each contestant will buzz in to answer the question.

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