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How Condoms Can Cost a Week's Wages

Inflation can change your sex life - and pretty much everything else. Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and Steve Bugeja present an everyday guide to economics.

Inflation can change your sex life - and pretty much everything else.

Economics with Subtitles is your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. In this show, Ayeisha and Steve make sense of inflation. They'll explain how hyperinflation is affecting how Venezuelans have sex, why you can't afford a ticket to see your favourite band in concert anymore and why a sale on sofas isn't always a good thing.

Producers: Simon Maybin & Phoebe Keane
Presenters: Ayeisha Thomas-Smith & Steve Bugeja.

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28 minutes

Last on

Wed 22 Aug 2018 15:00

Broadcasts

  • Sat 18 Aug 2018 12:04
  • Sun 19 Aug 2018 21:00
  • Wed 22 Aug 2018 15:00

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