Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts.

This is John Bachelor.

The show begins tonight in Beijing, the gathering of war eagles, Putin and

she, enjoying tea, talking about alliances, military, economic, any guess is good, also talking about how the US is

containing them. They also talked about democracy. And the contest with Ukraine is seen from the

point of view of she and Putin as a contest with NATO. There was reference to strategic forces,

that's nuclear. Everything that is required for a new Cold War. Not yet. And then Anatole

Leibin joins to talk about Beeloussef, the new

Minister of Defense, who is an economist.

And Anatole presents the case that he's there to re-industrialize Russia,

to make it work again.

Many complaints about the de-industrialization of the Stalinist era.

How they want their heavy industry back, maybe.

Scholar Report with Chris Regal, we talk about the Magnificent Seven Texts which are doing very well in the market,

but everything else the S&P 493 is drifting sideways or has been.

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