Scandal in the wind: Adani’s indictment could hurt Modi
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The Economist
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Gautam Adani is one of India’s richest men, whose fortunes are closely aligned to those of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. What will the political ramifications be of bribery charges against him? China’s property crisis has left a truly staggering number of new homes empty (9:01). And why Jordan Peterson is so contrarian, yet so popular (17:09).
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| 1:32.9 | Over the past few years, we've been telling you about China's property crisis, a heady mix of rampant building, iffy debt, and a near collapse of the market. Things are more stable now, |
| 1:38.4 | but all that has left a truly staggering number of new homes empty. |
| 1:49.5 | And Jordan Peterson is a Canadian academic and contrarian who's had fights with more or less everyone. But when our correspondent heard him speak, the crowd hung on his words like he was a priest |
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