The Intelligence: Bibi bumps
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
As yet more aid workers die in Gaza and an airstrike levels an Iranian consulate, pressure on Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mounts. But all that chaos is paradoxically protective. We take an economist’s view on the “superfakes” that are chipping away at the luxury-handbag industry (10:18). And French winemakers face the twin challenges of brewers and abstemious youth (18:37).
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| 1:22.2 | I must say I don't know a whole lot about luxury handbags, but even I can see that there are fewer |
| 1:29.0 | obvious knockoffs out there. The fakers are just getting too good, and that is throwing off |
| 1:34.5 | the economics of the whole industry. And, on average, my dad has a glass of wine every evening. |
| 1:42.4 | I've known how to use a corkscrew since I was about 10, |
| 1:45.3 | but still, I rarely drink wine. |
| 1:48.0 | In fact, lots of young people drink less alcohol these days. |
| 1:51.6 | What does this mean for France's wine producers? |
| 1:59.4 | First up, though... In video from Syria's capital, Damascus last night, the Iranian consulate lay in smoking ruins. |
| 2:15.6 | Syria's defense ministry claims Israeli aircraft targeted the building with airstrikes. |
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