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Division multiplication: the UAE’s foreign meddling

2025-04-23

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The United Arab Emirates projects an image of level-headed calm in the Gulf. Its actions abroad, however, betray a far more divisive (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/04/16/the-uae-preaches-unity-at-home-but-pursues-division-abroad?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) and ideological...

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Cardinals in: choosing the next pope

2025-04-22

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As the cardinals of the coming conclave prepare, our correspondent considers what will guide them. Which of the church’s challenges (https://www.economist.com/international/2025/04/21/the-coming-struggle-to-choose-the-next-pope?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) will the next pope be elected to address? In...

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Do immigrants drain the public finances?

2025-04-22

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Do immigrants actually undercut welfare systems and drain public finances? Our economics editor, Henry Curr, takes on this claim #economics #immigration

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What’s "Normal" in a Hyper-Normalized World?

2025-04-21

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2025-04-21

Now that the entire economy depends on these hyper-normalized speculative bubbles for its "growth" and "wealth," there is a profound fear of a future based not on artifice but on the real world.

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A man of the people: Pope Francis has died

2025-04-21

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He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor reflects on the life of a reform-minded pontiff (https://www.economist.com/obituary/2025/04/21/pope-francis-changed-the-catholic-church-but-not-as-much-as-he-hoped?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) who...

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Weekly Market Pulse: Peak America?

2025-04-21

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2025-04-21

The US economy has been the envy of the world for a long time, especially after the 2008 financial crisis and the COVID pandemic. Our economy has grown faster than just about any other in the developed world thanks in large part to the extraordinary performance of our technology sector. Our markets for debt and equity are the largest and most liquid on the planet. The US economy represents roughly 25% of global GDP but our stocks make up over 50%...

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How are time zones decided?

2025-04-20

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It's not just the sun that decides what time it is, but national identities, rivalries and governments too. Our interactive data journalist, Olivia Vane, examines how politics shapes the world's time zones

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Gene genies: CRISPR’s critical moment

2025-04-18

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It is a Nobel-winning idea with untold promise in health care, agriculture and more. We examine what must change (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/26/crispr-technologies-hold-enormous-promise-for-farming-and-medicine?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) in order to capture those benefits. Asia’s love...

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Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions

2025-04-17

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President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. President Donald Trump’s is not. That dynamic is complicating (https://www.economist.com/international/2025/04/15/xi-jinpings-trump-sized-puzzle?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) their gargantuan standoff. Spain...

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This Nails It: The Doom Loop of Housing Construction Quality

2025-04-16

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2025-04-16

Add in the doom loop of an unprecedented credit-asset bubble and housing as a sector is in trouble.

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Cash and checks: Argentina’s next IMF loan

2025-04-16

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For the 23rd time the International Monetary Fund will cough up, this time to the tune of $20bn. But the reforms stipulated by the loan, alongside promising changes already under way, suggest this time might be different...

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Could there be conflict over Antarctica?

2025-04-16

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Antarctica has been a model of peaceful international cooperation for six decades. But renewed rivalries between global powers is now threatening to cause chaos on the continent.

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Has Trump damaged the dollar?

2025-04-15

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Trump’s tariffs have caused the American stockmarket to dip, bond yields to go up and the dollar to fall. All three happening at the same time is a red flag for economists. Has the president permanently hurt America’s economy? Our Economics editor Henry Curr shares his take on The Intelligence podcast 00:00 - Why the financial markets’ reaction to Trump’s tariffs are concerning 02:31 - What Trump’s administration thinks of the dollar as the...

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What’s the meaning behind your name?

2025-04-15

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How popular is your name, and what does it mean? The Economist's senior data journalist, Sondre Solstad, has used artificial intelligence to find out

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The buck stops here? The threats to dollar primacy

2025-04-15

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Falling trust in the greenback is most apparent in bond-market moves. How close is the dollar to losing its status (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/13/a-flight-from-the-dollar-could-wreck-americas-finances?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) as the world’s go-to currency, and what...

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Bloody Sunday: Russia’s strikes on Sumy

2025-04-14

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President Donald Trump called the weekend strike on Sumy a “mistake”; other leaders called it a war crime. We examine the prospects for peace when Russia is brazenly hitting civilian targets...

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Could China win a trade war with America?

2025-04-13

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China and America have hit each other with eye-watering tariffs. It’s an economic poker match between two superpowers but could China have the better cards?

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Why are American bombers appearing on a remote island?

2025-04-11

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Why are American warplanes appearing in the middle of the Indian Ocean? As tensions grow between Israel and Iran, The Economist analyses how America is boosting its military might in the region

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The great brawl: China v America

2025-04-11

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Donald Trump is now aiming his trade war (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/04/10/can-china-fight-america-alone?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) squarely at China. As the tit-for-tat tariff battle keeps escalating, investors are fleeing to safe assets. What will happen next? Germany’s...

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Will Elon Musk make it to Mars by 2028?

2025-04-10

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Will Elon Musk make it to Mars by 2028? Oliver Morton, our senior editor, explains why he thinks this is unlikely on Babbage, our science and technology podcast

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