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.

More than a decade ago, $230 million went missing in Russia.

The hunt for that money has become a global mission,

but reporting by our correspondent raises concerns that Switzerland isn't doing much to solve the mystery.

And Western-style stand-up comedy doesn't have much heritage in China, but it's spreading fast.

Problem is, Chinese audiences don't think it's quite so funny when it's a female comic up on the stage telling it how it is.

First up, though.

Senators, how say you?

Is the respondent Donald John Trump guilty or not guilty?

The precise vote count had been in question, the outcome all but assured. Few expected that Donald Trump's impeachment for inciting the mob that stormed the capital last month would lead to a conviction.

And so, on Saturday, the former president was cleared.

It is therefore ordered and a judge that he said Donald John Trump be, and he is

hereby acquitted the charge in said article. Democrats were quick to share their disdain for the

outcome. What we saw in that Senate today was a cowardly group of Republicans who apparently have no options.

This was about choosing country over Donald Trump, and 43 Republican members chose Trump.

In a statement, President Joe Biden referred to this sad chapter in our history, calling it a reminder that democracy is fragile.

Seven Republican senators joined every Democrat in voting to convict Mr. Trump. That makes it the

most bipartisan such vote in American history. Yet it was still ten senators shy of the two-thirds

majority required for a conviction.

It was the last scene of the last act in the roiling drama that was the Trump presidency.

But that's not at all to say that there isn't more drama in store.

So on Saturday we saw a second attempt to convict President Trump defeated, but this one was

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