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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist.

In New York, I'm John Fastman.

And in London, I'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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But a film called EO is something different, a troubling, if tender, imagining of what it's like to be a donkey.

First up, though.

Yesterday, Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and American ambassador to the UN,

announced her long-shot presidential candidacy for 2024.

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