January 21, 2019· 36 min
The 1MDB Scandal And The Nature of Debt
Orality
Model
60%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,218 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic36%
literally, completely, certainly
Engagement61%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, right
Repetition100%
know (61x), they (49x), government (43x)
Parallelism100%
And, yes, I can sense your exc..., But before you turn this podca..., And that story is 1MDB, the 1M...
Sound Patterns36%
21 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases7%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging12%
fairly, could, suggest
Passive Voice13%
is when, is revealed, are used
Abstract Nouns18%
investment, recommendation, opportunity
Subordination9%
since, because, though
Sentence Length53%
Avg: 18.3 words/sentence
Word Complexity49%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers10%
the literature, empirical evidence
Impersonal Style39%
360 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style88%
literally, completely, actually
Description
At the heart of government debt is a promise to pay back creditors. But governments sometimes don't do this - either by defaulting on their bonds or restructuring their debt. How are these decisions made? And what happens to borrowings that governments say should never have been done at all? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.