Show and sell: Amazon v Hollywood
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The retail behemoth is splashing tremendous amounts of cash on streaming content; critics are unimpressed with the outcomes. But Amazon may have the best business model going. Statisticians in Britain appear to have found about 2% of GDP hiding in their data—we ask how it got lost (8:24). And how the pocket calculator ushered in the digital age (15:52).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
| 0:04.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
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| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:10.5 | And I'm Oire Ogunbe. Every weekday, |
| 1:13.6 | we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Before this week, if you looked |
| 1:22.9 | at the post-pandemic recovery of the world's big economies, Britain looked to be the weak one. |
| 1:29.3 | But statisticians just released some reworked numbers, and it's not too bad. |
| 1:34.3 | We ask how the story changed so much. |
| 1:37.3 | And, in the era of apps, there's something nostalgic about using a real pocket calculator. |
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