Governor Gavin Newsom
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167 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 May
Governor Gavin Newsom’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The economy is a bit off right now.
I hope it gets better so we can all have a better life.
The United States has a problem with consumers binge buying on their credit cards using money they don't have.
In China, it's the opposite challenge.
People are already inclined to save rather than spend, and this only increases when there are perceptions of tough times ahead.
Helena Löfgren has been studying China's consumption patterns for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and believes this economy is relying too heavily on selling products overseas,
in a time of geopolitical uncertainty.
Vloggers have exploded across China's social media platforms, filming themselves showing young people where they can buy cheap clothes, cheap food, cheap everything.
It's feeding into a kind of minimalist consumption subculture for an age with so much uncertainty.
And with would-be customers waiting for the price of goods to keep falling, desperate companies keep slashing their prices.
This is driving deflation, which is also dragging down growth.
The government might have to expand the social safety net, get graduate wages back up, or find another way to spread optimism amongst China's youth.
If it does nothing, the stresses will continue to grow on an economy already under considerable pressure.
Nobody wanted to go over the parapet, so my great-grandfather struck up his pipes and it was only when he started to play blue bonnets over the border that the men actually started to follow.
Nostalgia.
That sentimental feeling of the past.
But it turns out you can also feel nostalgic for things you weren't around for.
I'm Hannah Gelbart.
Listen wherever you get your BBC podcasts.
It's very vague, but at least on the surface, this is a discriminatory bill that's supposed to catch non-Jews, terrorists who attack Jews with terrorist intentions.
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