Nightlife Economics with Ian Verrender
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Nightlife Economics with Ian Verrender

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202614 min
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  • Business & money

Ian Verrender, ABC's Business and Finance Editor, joined Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife with all the latest in economic, business and finance news.

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Economics. Joining us for a look at business and finance news this week is the ABC's chief business correspondent, Ian Veranda.

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Ian, good evening to you. Welcome. Welcome back. Good to be here, Phil. Well, yeah, it's good to be here. I don't know whether it's good to be in the world at the moment.

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everywhere you look things seem to be grim. These riots in Europe, particularly in France, have rocked a lot of people. They're not just in France, of course. No. But it rocked a lot of people because the questions are being asked, what do people

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