Call of duties: the global costs of war
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Conflict in Ukraine has cut short the “peace dividend” the world was reaping. We count the economic costs of a widespread return to a war footing. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of two economic realists should, at last, overturn Turkey’s upside-down monetary policy—if they are free to act. And why so many whales are washing up dead on America’s East Coast.
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| 1:01.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:06.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | For years, Turkey's president defied good sense, insisting that lowering interest rates would tame inflation. |
| 1:22.6 | After his re-election last month, he appointed people who clearly know better. |
| 1:26.6 | We ask what's changed |
| 1:28.4 | and whether they will be permitted to fix the mess. And there's been a spike in the number |
| 1:35.1 | of whales washing up on America's East Coast. Our correspondent joins a whale-watching tour just |
| 1:41.1 | off New York to find out what's going on. First up, though. |
| 1:45.0 | At the end of the Cold War, America's President George H.W. Bush promoted the idea that peacetime would bring prosperity. |
| 2:08.6 | I may mean to speak this evening of the changes that can take place in our country, |
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