September 13, 2024· 31 min

Lots More With Isabella Weber on Draghi's EU Competitiveness Report

Isabella Weber

Orality

Model

89%

Highly oral (epic poetry, sermons, hip-hop)

Speaker Breakdown

HostTracy Alloway(956 words)

M:94%

HostJoe Weisenthal(902 words)

M:28%

GuestIsabella Weber(3,831 words)

M:28%

Oral Indicators

Agonistic56%

very, basically, extremely

Engagement53%

you, our, your

Memory Aids100%

listen, now, so

Repetition100%

like (68x), think (52x), about (46x)

Parallelism73%

So did...., And people are like, I don't r..., And we really do have the perf...

Sound Patterns68%

44 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"

Formulaic Phrases9%

at the end of the day, you know what, i mean

Literate Indicators

Hedging9%

quite, maybe, possibly

Passive Voice9%

was delayed, is widened, was perpetuated

Abstract Nouns29%

investment, productivity, personality

Subordination6%

because, while, since

Sentence Length45%

Avg: 16.3 words/sentence

Word Complexity51%

investment, analyze, anticipate

Academic Markers5%

according to

Impersonal Style47%

341 personal pronouns found

Descriptive Style100%

exactly, really, particularly

Description

This week, former European Central Bank President and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi published a long-awaited report examining ways to make the European economy more competitive. The report comes at a time when there are major concerns about how Europe is stacking up against the US and China in things like electrical vehicles and AI. It also dovetails with long-running debates about German fiscal austerity, economic tensions between various European Union members, energy crises, and inflation. In this episode, we speak with University of Massachusetts-Amherst economics professor Isabella Weber about her takeaways from the report and potential policy approaches to solving Europe's big competitiveness problem. Referenced in this episode: Draghi Says EU Itself at Risk Without More Funds, Joint Debt Draghi’s Call for Joint EU Bonds Hits Wall of German Opposition Only Bloomberg.com subscribers can get the Odd Lots newsletter in their inbox each week, plus unlimited access to the site and app. Subscribe at bloomberg.com/subscriptions/oddlots See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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