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Speaker 1: Hello Stephanomics listeners. It's me Stephanie Flanders, and I'm excited

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Speaker 1: to share that I will be finally back in your

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Speaker 1: ears with a new podcast series starting this Friday. As

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Speaker 1: many of you know famously, this is the year of elections.

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Speaker 1: Around forty percent of the world's population have voted or

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Speaker 1: will have the chance to vote, and those votes will

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Speaker 1: shape the geoeconomic landscape for years to come. The implications

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Speaker 1: are huge and well worth exploring, which is exactly what

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do each week with my colleagues Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: opinion columnist and author Adrian Wooldridge and Bloomberg contributor former

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Speaker 1: government advisor Allegra Stratton. It's the rebooted podcast series voter Nomics,

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Speaker 1: to weekly look at the way geopolitics and elections are

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Speaker 1: upending the long standing assumptions of policymakers and business people

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Speaker 1: around the world. Each Friday, we'll take a few steps

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Speaker 1: back from the weekly news agenda to help you understand

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Speaker 1: how the latest political movements are influencing markets, business and policy.

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Speaker 1: You'll hear insights from influential voices in government and in

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Speaker 1: the boardrooms from our journalists in Washington, Westminster, and across

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Speaker 1: the globe and from some folks who don't fit into

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Speaker 1: either category and are just really interesting about this stuff.

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Speaker 1: This year, voters around the world have the ability to

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Speaker 1: affect markets, countries, and economies like never before. Let voter

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Speaker 1: nomics help you make sense of it all, So be

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Speaker 1: sure to look out for our first episode this Friday,

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Speaker 1: April twenty sixth, and listen in every week after