Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

It'll be a tense meeting today between Argentine officials and the International Monetary

Fund. The IMF has coughed up its largest bailout ever, but the Argentine administration

is stalling on keeping up payments. Which side will blink?

And everybody knows how bad cattle farming is for the environment. Not everybody knows

just how bad shrimp farming is. Now scientists in Singapore have the solution, a nutrient

solution in which they're growing artificial shrimp from scratch.

Next up though.

Yesterday in New Hampshire, America held its first primary elections for the 2020 presidential

race. Unlike in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month, clear results came swiftly.

This victory here is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump. As polls had predicted,

the manager Bernie Sanders led the pack, just ahead of Pete Buttigieg.

And Senator Amy Klobuchar made a comeback, placing third with 20% of the vote. There's still

plenty of campaign to be done as more primaries and caucuses play out. But Iowa and New Hampshire,

the sights of the first votes on candidates play an important role, perhaps more psychological

than mathematical in slimming down the field. No Democrat has gone on to win the presidency

who didn't place first or second in those states. That's a troubling fact for Senator Elizabeth

Warren and former vice president Joe Biden, fourth and fifth place respectively. Both

gave similarly positive assessments after the result.

Our campaign is built for the long haul. And we are just getting started.

Our US policy correspondent, Idris Calune, was in New Hampshire for the votes.

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