This is The Indicator from Planet Money.
I'm Weyland Wong, here today with Ilya Merritts, a longtime public radio reporter now based in London.
Hello, Ilya.
Hey, Weyland.
So I have a rhetorical question for you, and really, it's a rhetorical question for your adopted country.
You okay, UK?
Oh, Weyland.
Groan.
And yes, that's a really good question.
You are correct to ask that question because the UK economy is looking a little queasy right now.
First, there was an IMF report saying the Iran war would hit UK growth hard.
They later revised it up just a little.
Then UK government borrowing costs hit a 28-year high.
And then there was the news that a million young people are out of work.
There is a rising sense of impatience here.
Have you noticed they keep changing prime ministers?
Six prime ministers in ten years.
So if the citizens keep thinking that we're going to fix it in 18 months,
and if we don't fix it in 18 months, we'll just get a new leader,
that's a problem because it's not reasonable to expect that we can fix these problems so quickly.