What’s the future of crypto?

2023-05-17

For the first time in his 20-year term, President Erdogan faces a run-off in Turkey’s presidential election. Our Turkey correspondent, Piotr Zalewski, explains why the economy might be a deciding factor on voters’ minds.

00:00 – Turkey’s run-off elections
00:49 – High stakes
01:26 – Tactics
02:31 – The price of victory

What might happen next in Turkey’s election: https://econ.st/3BsXWZE

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To read more about Europe and Turkey: https://econ.st/41Bsp2c

Turkey’s economy is running on borrowed time: https://econ.st/41GEIdy

Piotr Zalewski’s special report on Erdogan’s empire: https://econ.st/42XtfaE

2023-05-05

Hurricanes are among the most dangerous natural phenomena on earth, causing billions of dollars of damage and destroying lives every year. But what turns a peaceful patch of ocean into the planet’s most destructive force, and how is this process being affected by climate change?

00:00 – What are tropical cyclones?
00:46 – The history of tropical cyclones
02:06 – How do they form?
04:33 – What happens when they reach land?
07:13 – What is the impact of climate change?

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Is climate change making hurricanes worse? https://econ.st/40MQW3O

Damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising: https://econ.st/3LD55fS

Florida’s government subsidises people living in hurricane zones:

2023-02-02

As carbon emissions change the chemistry of the seas, ocean acidification threatens marine life and human livelihoods. How worried should you be about climate change’s so-called “evil twin”?

Film supported by @NipponFoundationPR

00:00 The other carbon problem
00:50 How does the ocean’s deepest point reveal its past?
02:55 Why are baby oysters dying?
04:08 Is the ocean acidic?
05:21 What is causing ocean acidification?
06:01 Why are corals dissolving? / Will deep sea ecosystems survive?
08:35 A threat to human livelihoods
10:42 What are the ‘potato chips of the sea’?
12:04 What is the solution?

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How does Alaska’s nature reveal our past and future? https://econ.st/3E0Jdrb

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2023-01-26

Dark matter and dark energy dominate our universe. They’re both highly mysterious, invisible and difficult to detect. So what are they, and how do we know they even exist?

00:00 – What is the universe made of?
01:53 – What is dark matter?
05:32 – What is dark energy?
08:54 – The future of the universe

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Find all of our science and technology coverage: https://econ.st/3Z632FK

How astronomers know “dark matter” exists: https://econ.st/3Za8Pu3

Listen to an episode of our science podcast about the Large Hadron Collider: https://econ.st/3ClwH3T

The best of our science podcast, “Babbage”, from 2022: https://econ.st/3WFM1QZ

Find all episodes of “Babbage”: https://econ.st/3GCzI2m

Did dark matter do in the dinosaurs?

2023-01-07

China’s re-opening of its borders is set to be one of the biggest economic events of 2023. It will have global implications for consumers, companies and policymakers

00:00: China reopens its borders
01:28: The impact of zero covid on China’s economy
01:50: Tourism is about to change
02:33: How commodity prices will change
03:27: The impact on foreign investment

Read more on how China’s re-opening will impact the global economy: https://econ.st/3vJib2d

For our most recent coverage on China: https://www.economist.com/china

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The biggest economic event of 2023: https://econ.st/3WYdkGE

China’s current covid wave: https://econ.st/3ZfVtwg

Our model shows China’s death toll could be massive: https://econ.st/3GLj6Wo

2022-12-27

What stories should you be following in 2023? From India becoming the world’s most populous country, to an illegal drug that might be approved as a medicine, The Economist offers its annual look at the year ahead.

00:00 – The World Ahead 2023
00:35 – India’s population potential
04:30 – Psychedelic medicines
08:06 – Japan’s markets mayhem?
12:45 – Repairing the world
15:50 – The coronation’s colonial concerns

Read more on The World Ahead 2023: https://econ.st/3YyANzd

Read Tom Standage’s editor’s note on The World Ahead 2023: https://econ.st/3WM5wY3

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Has China reached the peak of its powers? https://econ.st/3G3fgY8

India is continuing on its path to majoritarian chauvinism: https://econ.st/3jjZKOw

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2022-12-07

2022-12-02

China has been rocked by protests at the country’s zero-covid policy, and Xi Jinping now faces a dilemma: should he relax restrictions and risk hundreds of thousands of deaths, or continue lockdowns at the expense of the economy and, potentially, further social unrest?

00:00 – Protests spread in China
01:13 – What is the zero-covid policy?
01:30 – What is Xi’s dilemma?
02:32 – What should Xi do next?

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Read all our coverage on protests in China: https://econ.st/3VIE6ld

Unrest breaks out across China, as frustration at lockdowns grows: https://econ.st/3VFJXYm

The protests in China may change the way Xi Jinping runs the country:
https://econ.st/3Y2qvXY

Harsh lockdowns have united the Chinese: