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.

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

We're going to Nevada. We're going to South Carolina.

We're going to win those states as well.

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

There's still plenty of campaigning to be done as more primaries and caucuses play out.

But Iowa and New Hampshire, the sites 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,

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