{"title": "Finland's economy and the second cold war | Ville Valkonen | Negotiator 208", "titleOriginal": "Suomen talous ja Toinen kylmä sota | Ville Valkonen | Neuvottelija 208", "episodeNumber": "208", "guest": "Ville Valkonen", "publishedAt": "2023-08-22", "duration": "54:35", "durationIso": "PT54M35S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Dr2vna8Dg", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/448-suomen-talous-ja-toinen-kylma-sota-ville-valkonen-neuvotteli", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["finnish_economy_policy", "geopolitics"], "description": "National Coalition MP Ville Valkonen joins Sami Miettinen two months into Petteri Orpo's government. The episode works through the programme's economic section in order: housing, property tax, the labour market, social security, taxation, and where the six billion euro adjustment is supposed to come from. The most interesting single figure is inheritance tax — some 800 million a year out of a tax take above 110 billion — and the question built around it of what changing the tax type would actually cost. It closes on the shift to a second cold war and Finland's position in it.", "chapters": [{"t": "00:00", "title": "Ville Valkonen, on the channel for the third time", "seconds": 0}, {"t": "00:35", "title": "The public wanted a shift to the right, and the government delivers on labour law", "seconds": 35}, {"t": "02:10", "title": "Changes in the property market", "seconds": 130}, {"t": "02:59", "title": "The government's housing policy is market-led", "seconds": 179}, {"t": "05:01", "title": "Municipal minimum property taxes as part of balancing the budget", "seconds": 301}, {"t": "06:39", "title": "Is this a frightening moment to own or invest in housing", "seconds": 399}, {"t": "07:35", "title": "Testing the claim that housing benefit does not raise rents", "seconds": 455}, {"t": "08:25", "title": "Housing investment is still relatively low risk: leverage and tenants", "seconds": 505}, {"t": "11:31", "title": "Cutting bureaucratic clutter: liberalising zoning and landowners' rights", "seconds": 691}, {"t": "13:54", "title": "The big picture: Finns have lived beyond their means, with 152 billion in debt", "seconds": 834}, {"t": "16:35", "title": "Finland's 43.2 per cent tax rate, and the improvement in the programme", "seconds": 995}, {"t": "19:05", "title": "Changes to the labour market, social security and structures", "seconds": 1145}, {"t": "21:55", "title": "Entrepreneurs' concerns, and whether YEL funding can still be fixed", "seconds": 1315}, {"t": "24:35", "title": "Ownership steering becomes more market-based, and the Uniper mistake", "seconds": 1475}, {"t": "26:06", "title": "Improving growth and employment: an illegal strike is not a human right", "seconds": 1566}, {"t": "27:34", "title": "Balancing public finances: ending the debt rally with growth and savings", "seconds": 1654}, {"t": "29:01", "title": "Tax policy supports work and families with children", "seconds": 1741}, {"t": "31:45", "title": "Why Finland has to make big structural changes now: ageing and demographics", "seconds": 1905}, {"t": "33:25", "title": "Immigration policy, and Finns' opportunities to work", "seconds": 2005}, {"t": "37:09", "title": "Finland's low wealth against the other Nordics: will inheritance tax become a capital gains tax", "seconds": 2229}, {"t": "39:45", "title": "Two-way debate on X, and the Laffer curve", "seconds": 2385}, {"t": "43:08", "title": "Alexander Stubb would be a good president amid change", "seconds": 2588}, {"t": "46:01", "title": "Would an episode on Stubb's nominee register reform be a good idea", "seconds": 2761}, {"t": "48:56", "title": "The world has entered a second cold war: authoritarian states want to change the order", "seconds": 2936}, {"t": "52:44", "title": "Finland's role, and the demand for China analysis", "seconds": 3164}, {"t": "54:10", "title": "Inner Circle: Namibia, taekwondo and Mensa", "seconds": 3250}], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata, the neuvottelija.fi episode record and the publisher's own chapter marks, translated one for one; their spacing is irregular and matches the recording. No transcript is published here — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track. The guest is a governing-party MP defending a government programme he helped pass and no opposing voice is present, which the long-form write-up in the Neuvottelija AI editions states.", "coreTheses": ["Inheritance tax raises about 800 million against a tax take above 110 billion, which reframes the argument from revenue to behaviour.", "The adjustment is presented as growth measures plus spending cuts rather than as either alone, and the episode is specific about which is which.", "Housing policy in the programme is market-led, and the guest defends that rather than denying it.", "The guest is a governing-party MP defending a programme he helped pass, with no opposing voice present."], "slug": "ep208-suomen-talous-ja-toinen-kylma-sota-ville-valkonen", "guestsCanonical": ["Ville Valkonen"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/ville-valkonen/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep208-suomen-talous-ja-toinen-kylma-sota-ville-valkonen/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep208-suomen-talous-ja-toinen-kylma-sota-ville-valkonen/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "j0Dr2vna8Dg", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep208-suomen-talous-ja-toinen-kylma-sota-ville-valkonen/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep208-suomen-talous-ja-toinen-kylma-sota-ville-valkonen/"}