Scandal in the wind: Adani’s indictment could hurt Modi
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
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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| 1:03.0 | The Economist. |
| 1:10.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:14.6 | And I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:16.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:25.4 | Over the past few years, we've been telling you about China's property crisis, a heady mix |
| 1:30.3 | of rampant building, iffy debt, and a near collapse of the market. Things are more stable now, |
| 1:35.9 | but all that has left a truly staggering number of new homes empty. And Jordan Peterson is |
| 1:43.3 | a Canadian academic and contrarian who's had fights with more or less everyone. |
| 1:47.9 | But when our correspondent heard him speak, the crowd hung on his words like he was a priest giving a sermon. |
| 2:03.6 | First up, though, This weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bjapani |
| 2:12.6 | This weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP party won a landslide election in the Indian state of Maharashtra. |
| 2:22.3 | The poll in India's richer state had been touted as a bellwether of support for Modi, |
| 2:27.3 | and it should have given him a much-needed political boost after he failed to win an outright majority in national elections earlier this year. |
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