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The economics of mass deportations

2025-02-03

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Donald Trump takes office with a mandate to address illegal immigration. The question is not just whether his plan of mass deportations is possible - but whether America can even afford it #uspolitics #usnews #deportation #trump

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Is Elon Musk right about H-1B visas?

2025-02-01

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Jan Piotrowski, our business columnist, explains why bosses appalled by the billionaire’s right-wing antics are cheering him on in the visa fight #business #economics #tech #musk #usa

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Below Delhi, the search for India’s mythical past

2025-02-01

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The Mahabharata is one of India’s two great Hindu epics. It is thousands of years old and thousands of pages long. Over the past 75 years archaeologists in India have been searching for evidence that this mythological story might be based on true events. The Economist’s Leo Mirani travels to Delhi to unearth the story behind the story, and asks who gets to control the past? Listen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science...

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The worry rise of Europe’s hard right

2025-01-31

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Europe’s far right is on the rise, and with Elon Musk voicing his support, concerns are growing. How worried should we be? Berlin bureau chief, Tom Nuttall, explains Sign up to our weekly newsletter: https://econ.st/4eAhtZp Sign up to our daily newsletter: https://econ.st/4gyhHCm Austria could soon have a first far-right leader since 1945: https://econ.trib.al/4D9wE9T How the AfD got its swagger back: https://econ.trib.al/ygoar59 The hard-right...

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Turkish delight: influencing the new Syria

2025-01-31

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The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria will reshape the wider region. Our correspondent says few countries have as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey...

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Why does Trump want the Panama Canal?

2025-01-31

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Donald Trump wants the Panama Canal back. He’s accused Panama of ripping off America and claimed Chinese soldiers run the canal. Why is Trump so fixated on it now? #geopolitics #panama #panamacanal #uspolitics #trump

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AI is transforming war

2025-01-30

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Our defence editor, Shashank Joshi, explains to video journalist @johnnyharris what a battlefield might look like if one side uses AI, but the other side doesn’t. Click the link in our bio to watch the full video

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Putty people: can Trump get his picks?

2025-01-30

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As some of Donald Trump’s most controversial choices (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/01/29/kash-patel-is-a-crackpot?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) for top jobs are questioned this week, our correspondent analyses how supine Republicans may be in his second term. Has the luxury business...

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Why America is not yet a tech oligarchy

2025-01-29

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Is America becoming a tech oligarchy? Our business columnist explains why Silicon Valley’s moguls don’t have as much influence over President Trump as it might seem

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Remote control: Rwandan proxies occupy Congo

2025-01-29

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Rebels linked to Rwanda have occupied the city of Goma (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/01/27/rwandas-reckless-plan-to-redraw-the-map-of-africa?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 eastern Congo. Our correspondent reports on the horrific scenes there, and warns that Rwanda’s...

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How has China’s DeepSeek disrupted international markets?

2025-01-29

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China’s DeepSeek AI lab has disrupted stock prices. Several major American tech firms were left reeling after DeepSeek’s development of a cutting-edge language model, made for less than $6m. Our AI writer, Alex Hern, explains what happened

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Bot against America: a Chinese AI jolts markets

2025-01-28

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Silicon Valley firms have poured billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. But a new cheap AI model from DeepSeek (https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/27/deepseek-sends-a-shockwave-through-markets?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), a Chinese start-up, has sent shockwaves through the...

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Gaza, stripped: Palestinians return to ruins

2025-01-27

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Though thousands of Palestinians are going back to northern Gaza, rebuilding their lives and homes will take years. Just a week into the ceasefire...

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Weekly Market Pulse: Is The Honeymoon Over Already?

2025-01-27

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2025-01-27

President Trump’s first week on the job was a good one for markets. The S&P 500 was up 1.75%, with tech stocks taking the lead as the President welcomed a group of leading technology CEOs to D.C. to announce big investments in AI.

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Is DeepSeek a Sputnik Moment?

2025-01-27

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2025-01-27

I'm not sure that "software will eat the world," but it could consume the stock market bubble in a single gulp.

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In with a chancellor: dissecting Britain’s growth plan

2025-01-24

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Rachel Reeves has had a rocky start as chancellor of the exchequer. Our editor-in-chief meets her at Davos to dissect (https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/23/the-rachel-reeves-theory-of-growth?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) her plans for growth. Australia Day is coming up, but do not expect...

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Trailer: Scam Inc

2025-01-23

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A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It is already more lucrative than the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerful. The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong follows a trail that starts with the collapse of a bank in rural Kansas to uncover a global, underground scam economy built around human trafficking, corruption and money laundering. Can it be stopped? Coming soon. To...

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Right turn at a broken traffic light: Germany’s AfD

2025-01-23

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After the collapse of the governing “traffic light” coalition in December, the hard-right AfD has a renewed swagger (https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/16/how-the-afd-got-its-swagger-back?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 long can other parties keep it from power? We speak with Syrian refugees...

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Why nations that fail women fail

2025-01-23

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Nations that subjugate women tend to be more unstable and violent. Here's why. Video supported by @mishcon_de_reya 00:00 - Why nations that fail women, fail 00:55 - South Sudan: deadly cattle raids 02:10 - How bride price is destabilising 03:45 - Child marriage 05:29 - Polygamous unions 06:57 - Male kinship group 08:25 - Misogyny and instability 10:07 - Women in leadership 11.04 - Liberia’s women peace movement 12:46 - Women in peace...

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A tax or attacks: how the Houthis fund themselves

2025-01-22

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The procedure is simple—genial, even. Contact Houthi rebels in Yemen and pay up, and your freight can pass into the Red Sea unmolested. We examine how this extortion affects world trade...

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