The Intelligence: Coming to a Nikki end
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🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After a 20-point primary walloping in South Carolina, the state she governed for eight years, Nikki Haley vowed to fight on against Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination. But why? Seasonal opportunities for natural-gas arbitrage have been juicier during the war in Ukraine—and one good place to store cheap gas between seasons is Ukraine (9:31). And examining America’s cousin-marriage laws (16:05).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host |
| 0:14.0 | Jason Palmer. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events |
| 0:18.6 | shaping your world. Back in the days of the Soviet Union, one country got a disproportionate share of the |
| 0:29.6 | Union's natural gas storage capacity. Ukraine, we ask how a country at war can be a good place to park the stuff in seasonal buy-low sell-high deals. |
| 0:42.0 | And in more than half of American states it's illegal to marry your first cousin. |
| 0:47.0 | Yet from a scientific point of view there's less danger to it than you might think. |
| 0:52.0 | The perceptions will win out though, making for a weirdly illiberal |
| 0:55.7 | set of laws. |
| 0:58.7 | First up though, though. |
| 1:03.0 | I was |
| 1:07.0 | I was |
| 1:08.0 | I was at |
| 1:10.0 | I was at Nicki Haley's watch party in a very nice hotel in Charles and South Carolina and it was |
| 1:19.3 | over before it really had the chance to begin. |
| 1:21.6 | Idrise Kalun is our Washington Bureau Chief, |
| 1:25.0 | and over the weekend has been covering the race |
| 1:27.0 | for the Republican presidential nomination. |
| 1:29.0 | Within seconds of the polls closing at 7 PM, |
| 1:32.0 | the networks had all called the primary |
| 1:35.2 | for Donald Trump that was obviously a crushing blow for Nicky Haley given that |
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