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.

After decades in the post-Soviet wilderness, some hard-left ideas are making a comeback.

Our correspondent sifts through the new manifestos and investigates the differences between millennial socialism and some even more radical ideas.

And, with the relentless rise of e-commerce, you might have thought that the mega-mall was on the way out.

Not entirely.

We pay a visit to a sprawling new complex that blends shopping and entertainment in a bid to keep the mall alive.

But first... Argentina's new president Alberto Fernandez will be inaugurated today.

We're going to build the Argentina,

egalitarian and solidarity that we alls that's the compromise that I assume. He won't a

He won a decisive victory in October's election, but he faces urgent economic problems.

Argentina has inflation over 50%, rising poverty and a sputtering relationship with the International Monetary Fund,

which gave its biggest ever loan to the country last year. The new president has a high-profile

deputy.

I'm very content.

The vice president, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, no relation.

She is a former president from the Peronist movement whose populate policies hobbled the economy

for years.

She also faces legal troubles, accused of numerous corruption charges that she denies.

As the Fernandez duo take office, how will they govern?

Some hope for pragmatism.

Others fear more perinist populism.

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