Cheques, imbalances: America’s fraught stimulus

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The Economist

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4.4 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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After months of deadlock, a covid-19 relief package has passed, but the battles continue. We ask how things got so dire and what President-elect Joe Biden will inherit. A deadly shootout in London more than a century ago still resonates today; we examine one of the world’s first breaking-news stories. And the colour black reaches new depths in art.

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0:00.0	A dream couple, a dream place, and a nightmare wedding.
0:09.0	I'm sorry.
0:10.0	Tell death.
0:11.0	Nobody.
0:12.0	With my family.
0:13.0	Do them part.
0:14.0	Are you dead?
0:15.0	We're gonna fix this.
0:16.0	Shotgun wedding.
0:18.0	The new action romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez.
0:21.0	Give me the grenades, sir.
0:22.0	And just a moment.
0:23.0	Watch now.
0:25.0	Only on Prime Video, included with Prime.
0:36.0	Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.
0:39.0	I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
0:41.0	Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
0:49.0	It was arguably one of the world's first breaking news stories.
0:54.0	A shootout in 1911 between London's police and gangsters captured by new-fangled news-real cameras.
1:02.0	We look back on the Sydney Street Siege and how it still resonates today.
1:07.0	And for centuries, the color black has tested artists' ingenuity as it hinted at the underworld, the darkness of evil.
1:16.0	We examine the latest artistic use of the color in the form of a new, unfathomably absorbing material.
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