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Hi, I'm Xing Xing.
And I'm Simon Jack.
And together we host Good Bad Billionaire,
the podcast exploring how some of the world's richest people made their fortunes.
And we are back with a brand new season of Billionaires.
Yes, movie megastar, Arnold Schwarzenegger, America's richest self-made businesswoman,
Diane Hendricks, and co-founder of Snapchat, Evan Spiegel, to name just a few.
And we're asking you, the listener, to decide if they're Good Bad or just another billionaire.
Good Bad Billionaire from the BBC World Service.
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Two weeks of shutdown in the US is America talking itself into recession.
The problem with economic news is that it can be self-fulfilling.
If you paint a bad picture of the economy every time you turn on the TV, people will be pessimistic.
I know 20 to 30 firefighters who are actively searching for another place to go
because we're just done.
We're tired of this, man.
This is World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
I'm Ed Butler and today we're going to be looking at conflicting signs of the status of the US economy and why Donald Trump is bailing out Argentina.
First in the program, though, the International Monetary Fund,