Keep Kamala and carry on: Harris’s smooth route
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
A day is a long time in American politics: Kamala Harris has reportedly already secured the votes to become Democrats’ presidential nominee, a pile of campaign cash and the Trump campaign’s attention. For insight into how China treats its startup scene, we count the dwindling number of newly born unicorns (10:03). And why Britain’s twee beach huts are so eye-wateringly expensive (15:40).
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| 1:22.1 | Over the past decade, China has defied the skeptics in producing innovative and highly successful private firms. |
| 1:29.3 | Now the number of these so-called unicorns is dwindling. |
| 1:33.3 | Is politics or economics to blame? |
| 1:36.3 | And one of the more colorful features often found on the British seaside are rows of narrow little huts, open only during the rare outbreaks of good beach weather. |
| 1:48.0 | We ask why the prices for these pokey places have gone through the roof. |
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