Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

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

Both America and Europe are trying to prop up their small businesses,

repeatedly handing out piles of cash.

We ask why they're going about it in different ways,

why success is elusive on both sides of the Atlantic,

and whether any of it will be enough.

And listen to this.

Ad hoc radio stations are popping up all over the world.

Some are providing crucial public health information

or doing call-ins with locked-down listeners.

We tune in and find that mostly it's about a sense of shared experience.

But first, the origin of the novel coronavirus,

where and how it actually first infected a human,

has become more than a scientific question.

Yesterday President Donald Trump claimed he had seen evidence

that the virus came from a laboratory in China.

We're looking at exactly where it came from,

who it came from, how it happened separately,

and also scientifically.

So we're going to be able to find it.

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