00:26:53 · Erika Beras, Jeff Guo
[00:26:53] S1: That's what we do. [00:26:54] S2: I think that the unnerving thing about what we're seeing in France is that what's happening there rhymes with a lot of what's been happening here in Washington. You think the French government has a lot of debt? The US government has more debt. You think France is running huge budget deficits every year? We are running even bigger deficits. You think French politics is dysfunctional. I mean, look around. Of course, The US is different from France in some key ways. For one, we control our currency. The dollar still has enormous international cachet. Also, The US economy is growing faster than in France. But the most important thing that The US still has right now is credibility. Somehow, people still think that despite all our government borrowing, all our deficit spending, all our political dysfunction, that The US is gonna turn it around someday, eventually. [00:27:51] S1: Save the dates, November 6 through the eighth. Planet Money is doing three live shows at Kilkenomics, the comedy and economics festival in Ireland. Kilkenny, the town, gets taken over by comedians and economists and will be there pretending to be one or the other. Find tickets at the link in the show notes or at .com. [00:28:12] S2: This episode of Planet Money was produced by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler and edited by Marianne McCune, is fact checked by Charlotte Isidore and Sierra Juarez. Jimmy Keeley and Travis Hagan engineered the show. Alex Goldmark is the executive producer of Planet Money. [00:28:25] S1: I'm Erika Beras.
00:28:25 · Erika Beras, Jeff Guo, S7, S0
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