Kaylee Wells

Grand Theft Auto has a little bit of everything that makes games profitable.

You'll pay a lot of money for it.

You can play online and pay money for cool bells and whistles.

There'll be clips on social media.

Plus, it'll generate the same everybody's-doing-it fervor as dressing in pink and going to see the Barbie movie.

Here's USC's Demetri Williams again.

Except imagine if the Super Bowl only came around every 13 years.

Analysts say Grand Theft Auto 6 could help make 2026 the industry's biggest year yet.

I'm Kaylee Wells for Marketplace.

Before Sweden voted on the euro, Lars Kalmfors argued adopting it wasn't a good idea.

He chaired the government commission that analyzed whether Sweden should adopt the common currency.

Today, he's an economics professor at Stockholm University.

Sweden was coming out of a financial crisis it wanted to solve on its own, and the majority of Swedish voters agreed.

But a lot has changed since then, including Kalmfors' opinion.

Because Sweden is a small country, about the size of Los Angeles County, but it's got a lot of big companies that do lots of business abroad.

Maybe you've heard of them.

Volvo, H&M, Ikea.

Anders Oshlund is a senior fellow at the foreign policy think tank Stockholm Free World Forum.

He says international business is a lot easier when it doesn't rely on a bunch of different currencies.

But currency isn't just an economic tool.