The Intelligence: General dynamics
The Intelligence from The Economist
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
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As had long been telegraphed, Ukraine’s top general Valery Zaluzhny is now out; Oleksandr Syrsky is in. That marks a new phase in the war, and an opportunity for President Volodymyr Zelensky to reframe its terms. American car-insurance costs are skyrocketing—but, perversely, they are probably still too low (9:43). And the bonkers conspiracy theories involving the Super Bowl and Taylor Swift (15:03).
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| 0:00.0 | What do you get when you mix bicycle helmets? |
| 0:04.0 | Langerie? |
| 0:06.0 | Hmm? |
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| 0:59.8 | Need to hire you need indeed. Hello and welcome to the economist. Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:16.0 | I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 1:18.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:25.0 | The cost of car insurance is rising pretty much everywhere, |
| 1:30.0 | but it's skyrocketing in America. Maybe it should. However expensive |
| 1:35.6 | it may have become there, it's still not expensive enough to counter what it |
| 1:39.9 | really costs to have an accident. |
| 1:44.3 | And there is just a bonkers set of conspiracy theories going around that ties together |
| 1:49.7 | Taylor Swift, her boyfriend, the Super Bowl, and Joe Biden. We ask why this celebrity mix is such |
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