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And I'm Darien Woods. And you're listening to Indicators of the Week.

And today we are joined by our colleague from Planet Money, Ketting Malone.

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All right, indicators of the week, what do you have, Darien?

So my indicator is based in Italy, where there's this kind of

claditorial battle between bankers and politicians going on.

It's all about this plan to tax banks.

Take us to the Carl Sium, Darien. I'm ready to go.

So a bit of background. The government in Italy is led by

by Minister George Rabelone. She leads the Brothers of Italy party.

It has neo-fascist roots and came to power saying it would turn the Italian economy around.

The Italian economy is not doing great. In March, a million Italian households

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