It could happen to you: introducing “Scam Inc”
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The Economist
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Our new podcast series is a shocking look at transnational organised crime: nearly as big as the illegal-drug trade and far more sophisticated than you might think. Beware. After a week that started with bold tariff moves by the Trump administration, what can be gleaned from how things progressed (09:20)? And a staid, ancient game gets a glitzy modern makeover (16:20).
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| 0:00.0 | My dreams, my retirement, my life. My Map is a range of ready-made funds managed by BlackRock, making it easier for you to invest for the future you want, whatever that looks like. Our funds use ETFs and index funds to keep costs low and are actively managed, meaning the funds stay within their investment risk profiles. Plus, it really doesn't take much |
| 0:22.0 | to begin investing. Just get started and let the professionals do the rest. My future, my way, |
| 0:28.7 | my map. Ready when you are. Capital at risk, the value of investments and the income from them can fall |
| 0:34.3 | as well as rise and are not guaranteed. Investors may not get back the |
| 0:37.8 | amount originally invested. Diversityification and asset allocation may not fully protect you |
| 0:42.4 | from market risk. |
| 0:49.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:59.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:02.2 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:06.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 1:15.6 | We started the week with some startling moves on tariffs by the Trump administration. After some serious paroxysms of the markets, the scene is already very different. |
| 1:20.6 | We ask what's to be learned from all that White House whiplash. |
| 1:26.6 | And strap yourself in for some glitzy sporting action today. |
| 1:31.3 | There will be tension. |
| 1:32.4 | There will be expert analysis. |
| 1:34.4 | There will be top flight players battling it out with dramatic voiceovers. |
| 1:39.4 | It'll be chess. |
| 1:40.9 | Chess. |
| 1:47.9 | Thank you. chess. But first... |
| 1:49.0 | In parts of Thailand this week, panicked residents queued for fuel |
| 1:59.2 | after the authorities deliberately cut off power in several towns on the country's eastern fringe. |
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