The cass review, as its called, came out last week, and it recommends a new approach for clinicians. This is a Polarising Subject for some people. So, what mightjournalism do differently in how it covers it . Hannah barnes is a former bbc producer who investigated some of the uks gender Identity Services for the corporations newsnight programme. She went on to write a book about it. I asked her when she first started her investigation. First came across it at all in 2017. I was off on my first Maternity Leave and there was a piece in the times Byjanice Turner Which was talking about this really rapid increase in the referrals of Teenage Girls to gids the gender Identity Development service and she had spoken to two clinicians who worked at the service. It wasnt really a Big Sort Of Whistle blowy piece but they had talked to her and said what theyd seen and itjust i thought it was very interesting, but i was off and, you know, spending time with my baby. And there was also a documentary
So its not that Taylor Swift was the only one Driving Spending in the us, because eventually, we saw barbenheimer and beyonce, but she did accelerate it, that recovery, in a way. So, what do you, as an economics reporter, what do you think the economic impact of the Eras Tour is . Oh, its massive, but i think the key word. Is that a technical term . Economically technical term, massive . I like it. Uh, i wouldnt say that, i think thatsjust my own personal view, but you do have data supporting that, right . So, in a way, i feel like the key word here is reacceleration. Its not that people wouldnt be staying at hotels or wouldnt be travelling if it werent for Taylor Swift but i feel like, in a way, what she did was that she accelerated that recovery, right . So, in places like chicago, i feel like eventually were going to recover in terms of hotel stays and all of that and tourism. But she did accelerate it. And Bloomberg Economics itself estimated that the impact
Was the only one driving spending in the us because eventually, we saw barbenheimer and beyonce, but she did accelerate it, that recovery, in a wax so, what do you, as an economics reporter, what do you think the economic impact of the eras tour is? oh, it s massive, but i think the. is that a technical term? economically technical term, massive ? i like it. uh, i wouldn t say that, i think that sjust my own personal view, but you do have data supporting that, right? so, in a way, i feel like the key word here is reacceleration. it s not that people wouldn t be staying at hotels or wouldn t be travelling if it weren t for taylor swift but i feel like, in a way, what she did was that she accelerated that recovery, right? so, in places like chicago, i feel like eventually were going to recover in terms of hotel stays and all of that and tourism. but she did accelerate it. and bloomberg economics itself estimated that the impact not only from taylor swift herself,
All of the wall street economies were really expecting one to come eventually, so the whole taylor swift demand story seemed a little off, so that s why we started looking into swiftonomics or what eventually became swiftonomics to try and understand. so, that s what you meant by swiftonomics? yes. so, essentially, itjust became a theory about supply and demand and what it said about the us consumer and now, about the global consumer, right, because we re seeing the same story. what did it say? what do you think it says? well, it says something about pent up demand and what the pandemic did to demand, right? because before the pandemic and i don t want to get too wonky here but before the pandemic, we did see people spending more on services and, of course, when we were locked into our homes during the pandemic, everyone went on amazon and all of a sudden, everyone was buying goods online, so we kind of, like, forgot about experiences. and then the what the eras story said was th
Think that we have to recognize that what we have fundamentally, first, is a spending problem, we are spending more as a percentage of our entire committee today, almost 25 percent, than we spent at any time since the end of world war ii and this is a spending problem, we have to built that, and we have to recognize it was driving spending, medicare, kid, social security, food stamp overstamps and if we are going to save social security and medicare we have to reform them and get them in a direction that puts us on a sustainable fiscal path. that is how we get the economy and the country back on track. and, in our fiscal house in order. and that is what a lot of the candidates across the country are talking abou