How to pronounce “retarding” in English

So you've got a lot more bankruptcies.So there's so much private equity, I think they're really retarding the number of IPOs.

And if you drive these technologies underground, you don't have the opportunity to have those kinds of safeguards.Yeah. This-- the principal leaves open whether you should focus on the retarding or the accelerating.If you wanted to retard, maybe one way would be just to refrain from like funding it or actively devoting yourself to accelerating it.