Doing their not-own thing: “generation rent”
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Across the rich world millions spend more than a third of their disposable income on rent. We ask why policymakers have such terrible ideas on easing the pressure. America’s bid to crimp TikTok has raised a flurry of issues far graver than social-media scrolling (9:53). And why pop stars are (again) embracing the album over the single (15:46).
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| 0:58.3 | The Economist. Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm Rosie Blore. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping |
| 1:18.1 | your world. |
| 1:21.1 | America is putting pressure on the owner of Tik-Tok to sell its operations in the country |
| 1:28.0 | to a non-Chinese owner. |
| 1:30.3 | We look at the messy tangle of issues that raises from foreign ownership regulations to free speech protections. |
| 1:37.0 | And as music streaming has taken hold, the idea of albums took a hit. |
| 1:43.8 | No longer was an artist's curated collection |
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