rescuing again. i ll ask one of the people who was at the center of the storm the last time around, the former ceo of goldman sachs lloyd blankfein about whether the system is stable, and is your bank account safe? also, how did it come to this? did we learn the wrong lessons the last time? i ll talk to julian tet of the financial times. then don t mess with the french people s retirement plans. that s the lesson from weeks of strikes and protests and then chaos in parliament as the government pushed through their policy anyway. [ speaking non-english ] which brought the outrage right back to the streets. we ll tell you what you need to know. but first, here s my take. on his trip to saudi arabia last year president biden made an emphatic declaration about u.s. policy in the middle east. he said we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by china, russia or iran. last week s reproachment between saudi arabia and iran brokered by china suggests that th
united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. today on the program, panic in the markets as the banks need rescuing again. i ll ask one of the people who was at the center of the storm the last time around, the former ceo of goldman sachs lloyd blankfein about whether the system is stable. and is your bank account safe? also, how did it come to this? did we learn the wrong lessons the last time? i ll talk to gillian tett of the financial times. then, don t mess with the french people s retirement plans. that is the lesson from weeks of strikes and protests that sent chaos in parliament as government pushed through their policy anyway. which brought the outrage right back to the streets. we ll tell you what you need to know. but first, here is my take. on his trip to saudi arabia last year, president biden made an emphatic declaration about u.s. policy in the middle east. he said, we will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled
mention this in his speech, his budget document lays out a new shortage industry, construction. that means the ranks of foreign born bricklayers and carpenters are likely to rise. this change in policy means a surge in visas for workers and a shift in the country of origin. as the f.t. reports, the u.k. saw seven times as many workers coming from nigeria in 2022 compared to 2019. it is a 25 times as many from zimbabwe. hundreds of thousands from outside of the u.k. came to britain last year than the year before. now immigration is a good thing for the economy. the office for budget responsibility said migration to the u.k. could grow gdp by half a percentage point by 2027. but the rise in migration last year hardly matched the rhetoric about preserving britain s resources for the british born.
people came to britain s shores than left it. none of that increase comes from the european union. more europeans left the uk than migrated there. much of it comes from one-off events like refugees from ukraine. and as the piece from the financial times makes clear it was made clear by policies put in place after brexit. visas grafrned to the chefs and butchers, home health aides and nurses have surged but the government has classified them as shortage industries to fill them. although chancellor hunt didn t mention this, it lays out shortage industry and construction, and that means foreign-born brick layers, carpenters in the uk are also likely to rise. this change in policy means not only a surge in visas for