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EPISODE · May 22, 2026 · 16 MIN

Price Controls, Britain's Struggling Jobs Market, and the SpaceX IPO

from Merryn Talks Money · host Bloomberg

In Merryn's absence this week John Stepek and Sam Unsted, editor on the Bloomberg Markets Today live blog, discuss how weak UK economic data has actually provided some relief for gilts this week, look at the problems with both proposed and existing government price controls, and wonder whether the coming wave of mega-IPOs led by SpaceX might take some of the exuberance out of stocks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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