Editor's Picks: April 27th 2020
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4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, how will governments cope with the expensive legacy of covid-19? (11:05), unscrupulous autocrats in the pandemic of power grabs (17:52), and, why Netflix’s success will continue. Zanny Minton Beddoes hosts.
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| 0:45.8 | It's Monday the 27th of April 2020. I'm Zanie Minton-Bedos, the economist editor-in-chief. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome to Editors' Pigs, where you can hear three highlights from this week's paper, Red Allowed. |
| 1:00.4 | We have two cover stories this week. One in Britain and America, which looks at the |
| 1:05.2 | looming problem of government debt. As the economy falls into ruins, governments are writing |
| 1:11.0 | millions of checks to households and firms. Tax revenues are also collapsing. Long after the |
| 1:16.6 | Covid-19 wards have emptied, countries will be living with the consequences. What should they do? |
| 1:24.7 | Our cover in the rest of the world explores what we've called the pandemic power grab. |
| 1:30.0 | Perhaps it was a coincidence that China chose this moment to arrest the most prominent |
| 1:34.4 | Democrats in Hong Kong. More likely, it spied an unprecedented opportunity. No fewer than 84 |
| 1:41.3 | countries have enacted emergency laws to cope with Covid-19. In some cases, these powers are |
| 1:47.8 | necessary to fight the pandemic and will be relinquished when it's over. But in many cases, |
| 1:53.4 | they are not and won't be. Unscrupulous leaders are exploiting the pandemic at the expense of |
| 1:59.8 | the people they govern. And finally, our Shumpida column asks why Netflix will remain a blockbuster |
| 2:07.9 | hit well beyond the Covid-19 era. The stories you're about to hear are just a sample of what's on |
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