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🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, looks back on the year in world news. Then Mara Kardas-Nelson's book "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky" explores whether microcredit hurts more than it helps. Microfinancing was once hailed in the U.S. as the ultimate bipartisan solution to global poverty. And we talk to Jessica B. Harris, the author of "A Kwanzaa Keepsake and Cookbook" on the first night of Kwanzaa.

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0:00.0	The Indicator is a podcast where daily economic news is about what matters to you.
0:04.5	Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation.
0:06.6	So as a new administration promises action on the cost of living, taxes, and home prices,
0:11.3	the S&P 500 biggest post-election day spike ever,
0:14.5	follow all the big changes and what they mean for you.
0:17.1	Make America affordable again.
0:20.4	Listen to The Indicator, the Daily Economics podcast from NPR.
0:24.1	Happy holidays from everyone at Here and Now. We love that you're making us part of the season,
0:29.6	and we're making you part of ours. We've got new episodes for you every day through the end
0:34.6	of the year, and into 2025, of course. So if you like what you're hearing, spread the word about here and now anytime, along with your holiday cheer.
0:42.9	And thanks for listening. Now here's the show.
0:45.8	Frankly, it depends a huge amount on President Trump.
0:48.3	What better way to, you know, be the winner, as he would put it, than to be the person who facilitate a really big peace deal in the Middle East.
0:57.8	One tumultuous year comes to a close, and another might be on the way.
1:02.6	It's Thursday, December 26th, and this is here and now anytime from NPR and WBUR.
1:08.2	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:10.8	Today on the show, how the ultimate bipartisan solution to global
1:14.8	poverty actually saddled a lot of people with back-breaking debt. Also, tonight is the first night
1:21.8	of Kwanza. And the author of a new cookbook focused on the holiday says no celebration of African-American
1:27.4	culture would be complete without a little riffing. If you had this author of a new cookbook focused on the holiday says no celebration of African-American culture
1:27.7	would be complete without a little riffing.
1:30.5	If you had this world without the improvisation of African-Americans, it would be a sad and sorry
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