Saudi Arabia’s city of the future

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🗓️ 2 November 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has a $500 bln plan to attract new business to the oil-dependent kingdom: build a utopian society on the Red Sea free of many of Saudi’s legal and cultural constraints. Plus: why tech and finance execs won’t be joining President Trump in Asia. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.1	Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has a grand plan
1:08.6	to invest $500 billion in the city of the future. He's allocated
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