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Welcome everyone. You're listening to After Hours. I'm Felix. I'm Meher. And I'm Charlotte

from the Economist. Welcome back Charlotte. It's great to have you. Thanks for having me on again.

And you brought the topic for today. So I want to talk about chips when business people,

politicians, when they talk about critical supply chains, semiconductors are probably the good

that is deemed most critical. And people used to be concerned about access to oil. And now governments

are worried about a whole range of goods and technologies. And it's challenging for the

governments and also for the companies involved. So that's what I'm hoping to talk about.

Fantastic. I got to tell you Charlotte, before we started taping, I saw my 11-year-old

and she asked me what we were talking about. And I said, chips. And she said, what kind of chips?

And I said, guess. And she said chocolate chips. I was like, no, pita chips. Nope. She

guessed talkies, which I was quite proud of. And then finally she said, computer chips. And I said,

yes. Oh, good for her. Yeah. She literally said that is so boring. It's not boring. I'm here to

talk to her mom. I'm delighted. Please prove her wrong. You know, one thing that is

funny is we keep changing our minds. First data was the new oil. Now chips is the new oil.

And oil is now the new oil. Yes, maybe. Exactly. Did you bring a topic, me here also?

I did. So there's been a lot of reports coming out recently from companies, earnings, but the ones

that really struck me were in ride sharing and mobility. So lift, loss of third of its value,

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