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.

Quantum Computing is an emerging kind of number crunching that exploits the rules of physics

to solve some kinds of extremely tricky problems. And like many computing advances before it,

the finance sector is already looking to profit-run it. And for centuries, the ruling ideology

in Korea was confusionism, a philosophy imported from China. It's long-sensifated from official

dom, but its influence is blamed for both the good and the bad in South Korean society

today.

Just up though.

That power in the hands of Georgia voters who went to the polls yesterday will in large

part determine how President-elect Joe Biden will be able to govern.

Unlike any time in my career, one state, one state can chart the course not just for the

next four years, but for the next generation.

Both of the state's Senate seats were up for grabs after tight results in November triggered

a runoff. And that in turn triggered a fervent and wildly expensive pair of campaigns,

pitting incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Leffler against Democrats John

Ossof and Rafael Warnoch. Votes are still being counted, but one contest has been decided.

Mr. Warnoch will become the state's first black senator.

We prove that with hope, hard work, and the people by our side, anything is possible.

Signs point to a win also for John Ossof, meaning that the Democrats would win what amounts

to the slimmest possible majority in the Senate. In a state that has elected Republican

senators for two decades, it looks likely to be a stinging loss.

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