Merryn Somerset Webb

And a special thanks, of course, to Ian Miles.

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Welcome to Merrin Talks Money, the podcast in which people who know the markets explain the markets.

I am Merrin Somerset Webb, and this week I am speaking with Andy Haldane, former chief economist at the Bank of England.

Andy, welcome to Merrin Talks Money.

Merrin, it's wonderful as ever to be joining you.

Well, the UK knocked around a sort of number six in the world in terms of GDP as a whole.

Go down to GDP per capita, GDP per head.

And we're actually knocking around 26, 27, which I think is something of a shock for most Brits.