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Why the baby business is booming
2023-09-21
The business of surrogacy is growing fast, as fertility rates fall and demand from gay parents rises. This global trade has a dark underbelly, and needs policing.
00:51 America: putting a price on family
05:32 What’s driving demand?
07:52 How did surrogacy become a global trade?
11:30 Surrogacy’s dark underbelly
16:49 How can surrogacy be better regulated?
21:10 What’s in the child’s best interest?
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The fertility sector is booming: https://econ.st/3rntoHm
Surrogacy reform is spreading in the rich world: https://econ.st/46jxFdK
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What will AI be capable of in five years? We asked Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind #AI
2023-09-19
Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?
2023-09-07
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt – welcome to Argentina, one of the world’s most dysfunctional economies. How did it end up like this?
00:00 – Argentina’s economy is in crisis
01:21 – What is happening now?
04:16 – Why is this happening?
05:52 – Overspending
07:00 – Printing money
08:03 – Borrowing money
08:51 – Trade controls
11:06 – What are the solutions?
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Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina’s next president: https://econ.st/3L9zKkk
Javier Milei would be a danger for democracy in Argentina: https://econ.st/45F8Ys1
Argentina is pushing international lending to its breaking point: https://econ.st/3qKfDSN
Argentina could get its first libertarian
Is it worth going to university?
2023-08-31
These days higher education can feel like a risky investment. Here are The Economist’s tips on how to make your degree worth the money.
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Read more about whether it is worth going to university: https://econ.st/43fAo6x
For our summer reads: https://econ.st/43fRtgY
Listen to our podcast, Money Talks counting the cost of education: https://econ.st/44oP3ME
Why affirmative action in American universities had to go: https://econ.st/3YYtEsv
The university lottery: https://econ.st/45yC50b
American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate: https://econ.st/3OTBDT6
Muddled policies are harming British universities: https://econ.st/3PfIGqv
Mutiny in Russia: why is it so significant?
2023-06-26
The mutiny in Russian, led by Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, has exposed chaos in the military command but what does it mean for the Ukraine war, Putin and the world?
00:00 – Prigozhin mutinies
01:02 – What it means for the war
02:23 – What it means for Putin
03:18 – What it means for the world
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The meaning of Prigozhin’s short-lived mutiny: https://econ.st/3r1bl9d
Prigozhin’s strange aborted coup is a sign of Russia’s malaise: https://econ.st/3plquSi
War in Ukraine: Tracking the fighting with satellites
2023-06-19
With Ukraine’s counter-offensive shrouded in secrecy and Russian-controlled territory impenetrable, can satellite data help you see into a war zone? The Economist’s Senior data journalist, Sondre Ulvund Solstad, breaks down how he uses fires to track the fighting.
00:51 – Our model explained
02:28 – Ukraine Fire Tracker
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To see our Ukraine fires tracker: https://econ.st/46cK6sA
For our latest Ukraine coverage: https://econ.st/3OXHjNJ
How satellite data reveals the vast extent of fighting: https://econ.st/46dsY5G
Satellite data shows Ukraine’s forces are testing Russia’s defences: https://econ.st/3CCOSlk
Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space: https://econ.st/3CBoE2E
Can Ukraine’s counter-offensive succeed?
2023-06-06
As Ukraine’s long awaited counter-offensive finally begins, The Economist’s Russia and Eastern Europe editor, Arkady Ostrovsky, explores Ukrainian ambitions and strategies.
00:00 – the counter-offensive has begun
00:34 – strategic aims
01:13 – military aims
02:10 – political risks
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The counteroffensive appears to have begun: https://econ.st/3IYpgDe
For our latest Ukraine coverage: https://econ.st/3OXHjNJ
Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine: https://econ.st/3oIfTRh
Ukraine gets its F-16s: https://econ.st/3CclzpN
The horrors of the front line: https://econ.st/3OVYfnC
A Ukrainian cemetery awaits the casualties of the counteroffensive: https://econ.st/3MQa8J3
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