The Intelligence: Argentina turner?
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After more than 100 days in office, President Javier Milei has managed some much-needed economic reforms. But the hit to voters’ pockets may limit his popularity, and progress. Sprucing up a peripheral Paris neighbourhood for the Olympics is just part of a plan to transform the city’s geography (9:42). And the astonishing life of the longest-ever user of an iron lung (17:20).
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| 0:00.0 | Are you an absolutely huge fonter or a zoom iner? |
| 0:04.2 | Perhaps you're an arm stretched out like a zombie when holding a newspaperer, |
| 0:08.2 | or a squint so tightly at the menu the waiter thinks you're sleeping? |
| 0:12.2 | At Spexavers, we get it. |
| 0:14.0 | You don't want to admit it's time to become a glass's wearer. |
| 0:18.0 | That's okay. We're ready to see you, whenever you're ready to see properly. |
| 0:22.0 | Book an eye test at Spexavers. you whenever you're ready to see properly. |
| 0:22.8 | Book an eye test at spec savers.co.uk, |
| 0:25.8 | so you can see clearer. |
| 0:27.8 | Okay, we'll stop with the ears now. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:48.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:02.0 | Many residents of Central Paris look down on the scruffier neighborhoods on the city's periphery. |
| 1:03.0 | One of those Banlyus is about to host the Summer Olympics. |
| 1:06.8 | Our correspondent talks to planners and residents to see how it will be leveled up. And the iron lung seems like a bit of medical technology |
| 1:16.7 | from distant history. Not so. Our obituaries editor looks at the scarcely |
| 1:22.0 | believable life of Paul Alexander, an author and lawyer who spent most of his life in one between 1952 and last month. But first... |
| 1:35.0 | Recently we've been telling you about the drastic plans that Argentina's |
| 1:46.9 | newish president heavier Malay has to fix his country's economy. |
| 1:51.0 | But for years before that we told you about the distortions |
| 1:55.2 | behind the mess. A money printer just kept going brr under previous governments. |
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