Some of our favorite economic stories from 2023
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🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: In a special festive episode, we’re taking a look back at some of the headlines and headline-makers that grabbed the attention of our production team in 2023. We’ll touch on everything from bank collapses to crypto’s wild ride, redesigned chocolate bar packaging, and one of the biggest stories of the year: the murky and rapidly-changing world of artificial intelligence.
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| 0:00.0 | 2023, let's talk about it. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, and you're listening to this special Christmas Day Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC |
| 0:09.5 | World Service. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Leanna Byrne on a very good Christmas morning to you. |
| 0:14.0 | To take a look back at our 2023 of invited our producer James Graham on the program. |
| 0:20.0 | Hello James. |
| 0:22.0 | Hello Leanna and happy Christmas to you. Any good presents? |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah you know I'm going to get a cash in January so that's a big present for us this year. How about you? |
| 0:31.6 | I'm sure you've got kids I'm sure you have to shell out a lot of money |
| 0:34.4 | and presents. Yeah I've spent a lot of money probably more than any other year. Is that |
| 0:38.8 | because of inflation or is it because your kids want more presence this year? |
| 0:43.3 | It's because they're getting bigger and greedier every year. |
| 0:46.7 | So the big flagship ones, PS5 in the UK, that's between 4 and 500 pounds. Can't convert that off the top of my head but personally I'll probably be |
| 0:56.5 | getting socks and a wash bag well you'll find out later on I will we just got to get |
| 1:00.6 | this show done then we'll be on our way. I was just going to say |
| 1:03.5 | Leanna as I'm usually on the other side of the glass I've escaped you've let me in here |
| 1:06.9 | because I'm on the production side I've prepared some marvelous Christmas sounds for |
| 1:11.2 | you. Okay, okay. Making you feel festive? Very festive James. What about |
| 1:16.4 | this one? Cheers? Cheers James. Cheers yes. Well on that note toers let's have a listen back to some of the stories that we've covered |
| 1:29.6 | Recent figures suggest that more than one in five young Chinese are now out of work. |
| 1:35.0 | Last year US Mexico trade was worth more than $660 billion and now China is investing in Mexico too. |
| 1:42.6 | Being able to afford rent, saving and buying basic goods |
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