Hello my name is David Ronsman and this is Talking Politics but this is also Talking Economics

because we are recording this live at the Talking Economics Festival in Bristol in front

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Helen Thompson and I are joined by Ed Conway, Economic Editor at Sky News, Prolific, New

Stapha Columnist on all sorts of questions and we're going to try and cover quite a

little ground here.

We want to get if we can from supply chains to the Metaverse.

We'll see how far we get and we'll take in inflation and other things along the way,

the fate of globalization, the future of the world.

Ed let's start with supply chains.

I guess we should just try and explain what we think is going on at the moment.

It's routinely described as a crisis, the supply chain crisis but it's sometimes explained

as a short term effect of some fairly recent and easily identified accidents and sometimes

as a symptom of something much deeper that we're learning about the global economy and

the way that it works, which of those two explanations do you favour or how would you rank

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