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Category Archive: 5.) The Economist

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Bulls’ AI: funding artificial intelligence

2024-09-23

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Artificial Intelligence has gained ground so fast that OpenAI, the firm powering ChatGPT, is changing Silicon Valley’s investment model (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/09/19/the-breakthrough-ai-needs?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 how it innovates. Why the global nuclear order...

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Election rejection: fears of a contested result

2024-09-20

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Republicans are already preparing to contest the result (https://www.economist.com/briefing/2024/09/12/what-will-happen-if-americas-election-result-is-contested?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=checksandbalance&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) if Kamala Harris wins the presidency. American elections demand patience and trust, but with Donald Trump on...

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Rocketing: Israel escalates Lebanon conflict

2024-09-20

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After Israeli fires rockets (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/09/18/israel-has-bloodied-hizbullah-but-is-stuck-in-a-war-of-attrition?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) into Lebanon and Hizbullah warns of “red lines” crossed, the Middle East is braced for further attacks. As the planet...

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How to rig an election

2024-09-19

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2024 is the biggest election year in history, but The Economist estimated more than a third wouldn't be free and fair. What is the worryingly effective playbook used by authoritarian leaders to rig elections? Video supported by @mishcondereya Sign up to The Economist’s daily newsletters: https://subscribenow.economist.com/ Read our global guide to election rigging: https://econ.st/4g6OBK9 How to combat electoral manipulation:...

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Fed-letter day: at last, a rate cut

2024-09-19

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The first reduction in interest rates (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/09/18/why-the-federal-reserve-has-gambled-on-a-big-interest-rate-cut?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 four years shows America’s Federal Reserve thinks inflation is now in check. But does the central bank’s...

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Pager turn: the Israel-Hizbullah conflict escalates

2024-09-18

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The explosion of thousands of pagers (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/09/17/do-pager-bombs-presage-escalation-between-israel-and-hizbullah?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) across Lebanon and Syria was an attack on Hizbullah, a Shia militant group which had been trying to evade...

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Playing the fuel: reforming Nigeria’s subsidies

2024-09-17

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Large fuel subsidies in Nigeria are popular but ruinous to other public services (https://www.economist.com/leaders/2024/09/11/nigerias-catastrophic-fuel-crisis-has-a-straightforward-solution?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). Our correspondents report from Lagos on how home-grown oil refining could help...

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Foiled again: a second attempt on Trump

2024-09-16

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With less than eight weeks to go to the presidential election, tension is running high after a second probable assassination attempt (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/09/16/another-attempt-on-donald-trumps-life-will-shake-up-the-election?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)on Donald Trump. Has...

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The Weekend Intelligence: Detoxified

2024-09-14

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How do you detoxify a Nazi monument? Do you tear it down and start over, or memorialise it and acknowledge past sins? Vendeline von Bredow visits the Die Das academy in Saaleck, a place where west (Germany) meets east, past meets present, and history is contested. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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Open to debate: Harris and Trump clash

2024-09-13

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On Tuesday night in Philadelphia Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took part in what might be the only debate (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/09/11/kamala-harris-makes-donald-trump-look-out-of-his-depth?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=checksandbalance&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners) between them in this campaign. The race is extremely close...

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Come on out, the vacuum’s fine: SpaceX

2024-09-13

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Capsule that can withstand vacuum? Check. Low-pressure spacesuit? Check. Space-friendly Doritos? Check. The first spacewalk by private citizens (https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/08/28/billionaire-space-travel-heads-for-a-new-frontier?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) showcases SpaceX’s...

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Chip wreck: Intel is on the rocks

2024-09-12

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One of America’s stalwart tech giants is on the ropes, having first missed the move to mobile and then the one to AI. We ask what fate awaits it. Our correspondent meets with Vadym Sukharevsky...

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Don wan: Harris keeps Trump tame

2024-09-11

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The vice-president turned in a confident if imperfect performance, leaving Donald Trump flustered (https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/09/11/kamala-harris-makes-donald-trump-look-out-of-his-depth?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). But will it change anything? A global shortfall of blood plasma is...

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Mario druthers: Draghi’s plan for Europe

2024-09-10

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The EU’s unofficial chief technocrat issued a doorstop of a report outlining how the bloc can boost growth (https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/09/09/can-anything-spark-europes-economy-back-to-life?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 keep up in a changing world. Is it all too ambitious?...

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Plainly reigns but on a plane to Spain: Venezuela’s leader

2024-09-09

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Nicolás Maduro has stolen an election, again—but this time the rightful winner felt so threatened that he has fled to Spain (https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2024/08/29/nicolas-maduro-digs-in-with-the-help-of-a-pliant-supreme-court?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). We ask what happens next. A...

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Grand Barnier: France’s new prime minister

2024-09-06

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Two months ago, French politics was thrown into crisis after a snap election left no party with a clear majority. Michel Barnier (https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/09/05/turmoil-awaits-michel-barnier-frances-new-prime-minister?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), the new prime minister, has a huge task...

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What happens to your brain when you burn out?

2024-09-05

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What happens to your brain when you burn out? This is the science behind thinking too hard. 00:00 - Does thinking make you tired? 00:21 - What biochemical changes take place? 00:51 - What is glutamate? 01:13 - How to stop burnout? How thinking hard makes the brain tired: https://econ.st/3TfP0A5 Pity the modern manager—burnt-out, distracted and overloaded: https://econ.st/3B0VVGR How to keep the brain healthy: https://econ.st/4cU1YdP Sign up...

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Current affairs: how batteries will green the grid

2024-09-05

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Though we use more renewable energy than ever before, electricity grids need ways to cope with intermittent wind or solar power. Innovations that make batteries to store that energy bigger, cheaper...

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Beyond the bullets: we go to Ukraine

2024-09-04

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We take a look at the grim conditions in and prospects for the frontlines in the country’s east and north. But not all of the fighting is military in nature. We examine a far wider cultural revival going on (10:59), in music and fashion and long-forgotten ingredients and methods of Ukrainian cuisine (19:13). “Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow” sung by Andriy Khlyvnyuk Get a world of insights by subscribing to Economist Podcasts+...

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The sound of fury: pressure builds within Israel

2024-09-03

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The recovery of six hostages from Gaza has provoked mass demonstrations on the streets of Israel and a general strike. But Israel’s government (https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/08/29/have-israels-far-right-religious-nationalists-peaked?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) refuses to bow...

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