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title: "How to Spot a 'Wool-Sweater Economist' | Petri Roininen"
titleOriginal: "Tästä tunnistat villapaitaekonomistin! Petri Roininen"
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datePublished: 2025-07-31
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# How to Spot a 'Wool-Sweater Economist' | Petri Roininen

## Summary

Here's how to spot a wool-sweater economist! Petri Roininen. Clip from the episode "Trump's EU Squeeze | Roininen | #neuvottelija 344." Petri Roininen talks with Sami about the Trump-EU trade deal, which looks poorly negotiated from a European perspective. Did Ursula von der Leyen give in too easily, and is capital fleeing to the US again? Petri suggests that pension insurers should set up a new bank in Finland. Sami agrees.

## Transcript

*English transcript derived from validated English subtitles ([WebVTT](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/610-tasta-tunnistat-villapaitaekonomistin-petri-roininen/captions.en.vtt) · [SRT](https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/610-tasta-tunnistat-villapaitaekonomistin-petri-roininen/captions.en.srt)). Timestamps link to the original video.*

[**00:00**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tle3CTS1ZMo&t=0s) Do you know how to recognize a wool-sweater economist regardless of their attire? Well? By the phrase 'Every good project gets funding.' That is a sure wool-sweater economist's hallmark. Every good project or every company gets funding. Yeah, it really is not like that!

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Cite as: Sami Miettinen, Neuvottelija — How to Spot a 'Wool-Sweater Economist' | Petri Roininen, https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/610-tasta-tunnistat-villapaitaekonomistin-petri-roininen/, 2025-07-31. For quotes include episode db-610 and timestamp.