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But is the UK the country we should be worrying about? <\/p>\n<p>Fact checking by Leyla Doss.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your Next Listen\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/IR7LTPWE\"target=\"_blank\"   >What broke Britain\u2019s economy?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Connect with The Indicator <\/strong><br \/>\u2014 Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/npr.org\/indicatornewsletter\"target=\"_blank\"   >The Indicator\u2019s brand new newsletter<\/a><br \/>\u2014 Buy the <a href=\"https:\/\/lnk.to\/i3AukBdDWE\"target=\"_blank\"   >Planet Money book<\/a><br \/>\u2014 Find our <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/indicator_npr\"target=\"_blank\"   >socials, YouTube and more<\/a>!<br \/>\u2014 For sponsor-free episodes, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\"target=\"_blank\"   >subscribe to NPR+<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-indicator-from-planet-money"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U OK, UK? - Best USA Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bestusamoverss.com\/?p=2038\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U OK, UK? - Best USA Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the United Kingdom, young people are out of work, government borrowing costs are high, and the nation is burning through PM\u2019s like yesterday\u2019s leftovers. 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