Poll fishing: Peru’s persistent protests
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president in December; only an early election might bring a return to calm. Our correspondent goes shopping to discover the spending habits of Generation Z and millennials. And examining the work of Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who was an unlikely midwife at the birth of modern satire.
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| 0:00.0 | You. Yeah, you. |
| 0:02.0 | It's time to muller lighten up those dark, gloomy nights |
| 0:06.0 | and grab winder by the spoon. |
| 0:08.0 | Say goodbye, gloom and hello, yum |
| 0:12.0 | with delicious cherry, toffee flavor, |
| 0:14.0 | and even flipping banana and custard flavor. |
| 0:17.0 | Muller light, find your flavor today. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:28.0 | In London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 0:30.0 | And in New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 0:32.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:36.0 | shaping your world. |
| 0:40.0 | To get a read on a generation, take a look at what they spend their money on. |
| 0:44.0 | We go shopping to find that generation Z and millennials |
| 0:48.0 | are broke, woke, and complex, and they've got quite a taste for luxury items. |
| 0:54.0 | And there was an unusual figure present at the birth of modern satire, |
| 1:00.0 | a mathematics prodigy who started at Harvard aged just 15. |
| 1:04.0 | We look at the small but profoundly influential collection |
| 1:08.0 | of goofy songs by Tom Lehrer. |
| 1:10.0 | But first... |
| 1:30.0 | Well, I've been in Lima for most of the past month. |
| 1:32.0 | I lived here in the 1980s when there was hyperinflation and terrorism. |
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