Ready, steady, slow: Ukraine’s bid for Kherson
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The long-trailed counter-offensive to retake the Russian-occupied regional powerhouse and symbolically powerful provincial capital has begun. But Ukraine’s forces are in no hurry. Visa and Mastercard are two of the world’s most profitable companies; we look at efforts to break their iron grip on the payments market. And the blue-blooded horseshoe crabs that are needlessly bled in their millions.
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| 0:58.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. In New York, I'm John Fasten. |
| 1:04.8 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 1:10.2 | shaping your world. |
| 1:13.8 | You may not know what interchange fees are, but if you've paid for anything in America, |
| 1:20.1 | they've hit you in the wallet, hard. They are an artifact of a duopoly, and at long last, |
| 1:27.2 | legislators have them in their sights. |
| 1:30.3 | And springtime on America's East Coast is a dangerous time to be a horseshoe crab. |
| 1:36.3 | The creature's blue blood is extremely useful in the biomedical industry, even though |
| 1:41.2 | there's a cheaper, synthetic alternative. |
| 1:43.9 | We ask why the crabs are still being bled. |
| 1:50.6 | But first... |
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