{"title": "Finnish economy +2.1 per cent — is this the turnaround? | Lasse Corin | Negotiator 401", "titleOriginal": "Suomen talous +2,1 % — onko käänne tässä? | Lasse Corin | Neuvottelija 401", "episodeNumber": "401", "guest": "Lasse Corin", "publishedAt": "2026-08-17", "duration": "01:03:14", "durationIso": "PT1H3M14S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ubW16EycFY", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/829-suomen-talous-21-onko-kaanne-tassa-lasse-corin-neuvottelija", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["finnish_economy_policy", "investing_markets"], "description": "Aktia's chief economist Lasse Corin takes apart a forecast of 2.1 per cent GDP growth for Finland. The episode separates what in that number is real growth from what is a statistical artefact, why the fighter jet procurement barely moves GDP, what a rise in measured productivity actually captures, and why Finland's public finance figures are unusually hard to compare internationally — the pension system sits inside the public sector here and outside it in many comparison countries. Also covers the housing market, the tax wedge and what AI is doing to the forecasting craft itself.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. No chapter marks are published here: the publisher's list carries 78 entries on a roughly 36-second grid rather than at topic changes, so republishing it would assert timestamps that do not hold. No transcript is published either — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track.", "coreTheses": ["A headline growth number has to be split before it means anything: part of 2.1 per cent is real activity and part is a statistical artefact of how the components are measured.", "Large defence procurement moves the budget far more than it moves GDP, because most of the value is imported.", "Finland's public finance ratios are not directly comparable internationally, because the pension system is recorded inside the public sector here and outside it elsewhere.", "Measured productivity growth can rise without anything getting better, when the composition of who is working changes."], "slug": "ep401-suomen-talous-kaanne-lasse-corin", "guestsCanonical": ["Lasse Corin"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/lasse-corin/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep401-suomen-talous-kaanne-lasse-corin/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep401-suomen-talous-kaanne-lasse-corin/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "3ubW16EycFY", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep401-suomen-talous-kaanne-lasse-corin/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/economy/ep401-suomen-talous-kaanne-lasse-corin/"}