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The Economic cost of a Bank Holiday

This week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston gets to grips with the economic benefits and costs of ha...

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10.00 25 Oct 2024


The Economic cost of a Bank Holiday


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This week on Taking Stock Mandy Johnston gets to grips with the economic benefits and costs of having bank holidays when she talks to Edward Thomas Jones, Lecturer in Economics at Bangor University, who has looked at the global data on extra days off.

The US voting system is a complex one. Mandy talks to Sam Levine from the Guardian, who goes through the role of the electoral college system, how it was created and how it all works.

Plus, in our 'Techscape' Slot Mandy looks at the world of Crypto after the news that the Collison brothers are buying the US crypto platform Bridge,


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