Coronavirus and oil shocks rock the global economy

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Coronavirus update and explanation of why an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia is rocking the global economy. More crackdowns in Saudi Arabia, why Putin might be the Russian President for life, more holes in the US/Taliban troop withdrawal plan, and hopeful progress for abortion rights in Argentina. Then Zarlasht Halaimzai from the Refugee Trauma Initiative joins to offer an Afghan perspective on Trump’s troop withdrawal deal with the Taliban.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:09.6	Welcome back to Five Save the World. I'm Tommy VTour.
0:11.6	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:12.5	Uh, Ben and I have a giant piece of plastic
0:16.0	between us because that of an utter abundance of caution.
0:18.6	Social distancing.
0:19.5	We're socially distancing.
0:20.8	Uh, we're not actually joking about the coronavirus.
0:23.2	It's fucking terrifying.
0:24.5	Yes.
0:25.0	Here we are.
0:25.5	It's not a hoax.
0:26.1	Not a hoax.
0:26.5	Yeah, so that's a big focus of the show today.
0:28.5	We're also going to talk about the oil price wars
0:31.0	between the Saudis and OPEC and Russia,
0:33.7	because that is having a massive impact on our economy.
0:36.3	Also, we're going to talk about some of the major crackdowns
0:39.2	in Saudi Arabia from the great reformer,
0:41.2	Mohammed bin Salman, uh, whether or not Vladimir Putin,
0:44.0	maybe the leader for life, the so-called peace deal
0:46.5	with the Taliban,
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