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.

If you're sick, stay home. As the coronavirus crisis makes sick pay a sticking point around

the world, you look into how different attitudes and incentives can keep everyone safer.

And some new research digs into decades worth of data from the daytime television classic,

The Price is Right. For an ever-increasing fraction of contestants, the price is wrong,

and that reveals a lot about economic trends in America.

But first, Russia's constitution currently says that Vladimir Putin must leave office at the end

of his current term in 2024. He's already the longest-serving leader since Joseph Stalin ruled over

the Soviet Union. But for months there have been hints that he wants to extend his tenure further.

On Tuesday, Russia's parliament unanimously passed a constitutional amendment that would

reset the clock on his leadership. It should sail through the constitutional court equally easily.

And if, or when, it's voted into law, Mr. Putin would be able to rule until the year 2036.

So in 2000, when Vladimir Putin became president for the first time, there was a film being made of him

and the camera was following him. Arkadyo Stropsky is Russia and Eastern Europe editor for the economist.

And the interviewer asked him whether he thought about the central issue in Russian history,

the one of succession. Putin said, yes, I have thought about it. In fact, I haven't

been thinking about it a lot. And looking at the windows offensively, he said,

a very much hope that one day I will manage to go back to normal life and that I'll have some

private future. And from people I talk to around him, a lot of them say that when he first

was drawn to the Kremlin, he actually thought he was only going to stay there for one term.

But what we're seeing is that Vladimir Putin who once wanted out of office is increasingly

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