Invaluable bonds: rising borrowing costs
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
America may have avoided a government shutdown last month but its fiscal worries are far from over. And unease in bond markets will spill over into the rest of the world. What can governments do to stave off the financial blow? The Chinese Communist Party’s youth wing is using rap to lure new members, and it’s working (10:10). And, how has “Bluey” become such a hit (19:16)?
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| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:05.2 | And I'm Oire Ogunbe. |
| 1:07.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | China's Communist Youth League is kind of like a training ground for becoming a party member or even leader. |
| 1:21.6 | President Xi Jinping has made beefing up the league a priority, and he's succeeding, with help from, among others, a rap star. |
| 1:31.2 | And, an Australian cartoon called Bluey has spread far beyond its homeland. It's now watched |
| 1:37.5 | in 60 countries. We look into why the animated shorts, centered on the way parents and children |
| 1:43.8 | play games together |
| 1:45.2 | has been such a rollicking success. |
| 1:53.0 | First up, though. |
| 1:59.6 | Today, a vote for a new Speaker of the House will be top of the agenda for lawmakers in Washington. |
| 2:07.6 | The American people deserve to have their Congress, their House representative, working, and we can't have that happen to get a speaker, so we need to do that. Republican Jim Jordan, who won the conference nomination on Friday, will be hoping to garner the |
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