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No question, Mark: Canada’s new PM

2025-03-10

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The governing Liberal party is enjoying a stunning turnaround in the polls, and now it has a new leader. We ask how Mark Carney will tussle (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/03/10/mark-carney-must-keep-an-expansionist-america-at-bay?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) with Donald Trump’s tariffs...

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One week in the life of Volodymyr Zelensky

2025-03-07

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After a turbulent seven days (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/03/04/the-lesson-from-trumps-ukrainian-weapons-embargo?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), how will President Volodymyr Zelensky tackle the domestic and international challenges ahead? Our correspondent attends “Ode to Resilience”, a...

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Kurds in the right place: a truce nears

2025-03-06

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The leader of Turkey’s Kurdish rebels has called on the group (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/27/one-of-the-worlds-longest-conflicts-may-be-ending?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) to disband. That could end one of the world’s longest running conflicts. How tariffs and political volatility may...

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Pompcast: Trump rallies Congress

2025-03-05

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American presidents often use their first meeting with Congress as a chance to lay out their agenda for the next four years. Donald Trump, by contrast, treated last night’s address...

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Conversation peace: can Europe bargain with Russia?

2025-03-03

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European leaders met in London this weekend (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/03/02/europe-vows-to-defend-ukraine-but-prays-for-trumps-support?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) after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s public row shattered hopes for a US-led truce in Ukraine. What did the summit...

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Three Ways to Restore Housing Affordability

2025-02-28

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2025-02-28

The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it's just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can't be both.

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Ode to dread: Europe after Trump

2025-02-28

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This week European leaders have lined up to charm Donald Trump. But the broad smiles belie a bigger fear: what would it mean for the continent’s security if America forsakes its security guarantees...

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Who controls the West Bank?

2025-02-27

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More than 40,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the occupied West Bank in the last month because of Israel’s latest operation. It’s reignited a long-standing question about the Palestinian territory: who controls the West Bank?

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Heir-raising: the boom in inheritance

2025-02-27

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As the baby-boom generation starts to die and economic growth slows many more people are getting rich from family wealth. Are we returning to the age of Jane Austen? The latest EIU Democracy Index (https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2024?utm_campaign=MA00001507&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=eiu-intelligence-podcast) reveals what a bumper election year did to country rankings (9:36). And our correspondent takes an ice bath...

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Has America handed China a trump card?

2025-02-25

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China’s leader, Xi Jinping, often says the East is rising and the West is in decline. Do recent events in America prove him right? The Economist’s Geopolitics editor, David Rennie, gives his insight

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Emmanuel dexterity: Trump and Macron chat

2025-02-25

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The meeting between France’s and America’s presidents had a familiarly chummy feel. We ask whether Emmanuel Macron’s charm offensive (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/25/has-emmanuel-macron-managed-to-reason-with-donald-trump?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) might have changed Donald Trump’s mind...

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Left, right and centre: Germany’s election

2025-02-24

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Instead of needing three parties to cobble together a majority, the country’s two traditional main ones have the numbers (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/23/friedrich-merz-wins-germanys-election-but-forming-a-coalition-will-be-hard?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). What to expect once the talks...

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Weekly Market Pulse: Tune Out The Noise

2025-02-24

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2025-02-24

Okay, I confess. It was my fault. I decided to take a couple of days off. I took my eye off the ball and the stock market fell a quick 2% while I was relaxing, eating too much, and seeing some great art in the Holy City, Charleston, SC. I promise it won’t happen again, at least until my wife tells me where we’re going next. It is a running joke within Alhambra that every time I go away for a few days the market takes a hit. Of course, that isn’t...

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Is Trump playing the “madman”?

2025-02-23

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Donald Trump seems to relish causing chaos. But what if there’s a method to the madness? Adam O’Neal, our Washington Correspondent, explains the “madman theory”  #donaldtrump #uspolitics #madman #madmantheory #nixon #diplomacy

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How well is LA recovering from the wildfires?

2025-02-22

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Following LA's wildfires in January, workers have spent weeks clearing the debris and removing hazardous waste. Our West Coast correspondent, Aryn Braun, has been following their progress

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What does Putin really want?

2025-02-21

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Three years after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it is still not clear what “winning” his war really means. As talks with the Trump administration begin our Russia editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, explains what Putin really wants #ukrainewar #vladimirputin #geopolitics #war #warinukraine #zelensky

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Friends (the one with estrangement): Europe without the US

2025-02-21

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Europe must move boldly (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/20/how-europe-must-respond-as-trump-and-putin-smash-the-post-war-order?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 American-led world order shatters beneath it; we explain how. Many people view the freedom to work from home as a perk. Some...

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The Tax Benefits of Self-Employment

2025-02-20

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2025-02-20

Lowering one's tax burden is not the reason to pursue self-employment, but it is something worth understanding if you're exploring self-employment.

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Young, gifted and black: Africa’s next generation

2025-02-20

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Africa’s young are educated, ambitious side-hustlers. But they are hampered by their economies and dispirited by their politicians. How to harness their vast potential? America’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is, in a real-world accounting...

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How more women can become CEOs

2025-02-20

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Only around 10% of Britain’s and America’s biggest companies have female CEOs. Addressing the "motherhood penalty" and making recruitment processes uniform are two ways to redress this imbalance. Video supported by @mishcon_de_reya 00:00 - Will CEO gender parity happen? 00:50 - Vodafone CEO, Margherita Della Valle 01:51 - Women CEOs: why so few? 02.11 - Motherhood penalty 03:31 - How Nordic countries get it right 04:20 - Unconscious...

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