Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Lane Green, filling in for Jason Palmer.

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

Microfinance is known for its infancy in Bangladesh, but it's grown to a healthy adult size in Cambodia

where it provides small loans to millions.

But growth brings its own problems, which are now being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

And not so long ago, the Airbus A380 looked to be the future of air travel.

Now, production has been scrapped and many of the existing jets are sitting idle.

That's left owners with a super jumbo problem.

Just how much is a used A380 worth?

But first, the United States Postal Service is at the center of a political tussle in Washington.

In recent months, mail delivery is slowed, leading to fears that mail-in voting could be compromised in the upcoming election.

Yesterday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called Congress back from its summer recess to investigate changes made to the USPS by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy

and appointee of President Trump.

The actions this administration are taking these are our voting system.

Our sacred right to vote are a domestic assault on our Constitution.

Meanwhile, the president has continued to attack the legitimacy of mail-in voting without evidence.

I think that mail-in voting is a terrible thing.

I think if you vote, you should go.

You look at what they do where they grab thousands of mail-in ballots and they dump it.

There's a lot of dishonesty going along with mail-in voting.

Concerns are growing that President Trump could be undermining mail-in voting in the midst of a pandemic.

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