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 was arguably one of the world's first breaking news stories, a shootout in 1911 between London's police and gangsters captured by newfangled newsreel cameras.

We look back on the Sydney Street siege and how it still resonates today.

And for centuries the color black has tested artist's ingenuity, as it hinted at the

underworld, the darkness of evil. We examine the latest artistic use of the color in the form of a new

unfathomably absorbing material. There is truly none more black. But first, America's House of Representatives

passed another version of a stimulus bill yesterday, this one promising $2,000 checks to the majority

of Americans. This would make a difference in the lives of Americans who are facing the greatest uncertainty

that they've experienced for many of them in their lifetime.

It's unclear if the measure will pass in the Senate, making it yet another twist in a last-minute

saga to provide economic assistance to millions of struggling American workers

and businesses. The original $2.3 trillion spending package included $900 billion for pandemic relief,

in addition to funding the federal government for the next year. It was hastily negotiated in the

run-up to Christmas by a bipartisan group, including President

Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin. But after it was passed by the House and the Senate,

Mr. Trump criticized the bill, saying it didn't do enough to help ordinary Americans.

It really is a disgrace. For example, among the more than 5,000 pages in this bill.

In the end, he didn't make a good on his threat to veto the legislation on Sunday.

But he demanded another congressional vote on increasing the value of the stimulus checks,

a measure supported by many more Democrats than Republicans.

I worried that this whopping $463 billion won't do what's needed,

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