The Intelligence: Land of the rising sums
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Look past short-term stumbles: there are plenty of reasons to think Japan may spin out of its decades-long deflationary spiral. But how to avoid another false dawn? A visit to a mine in Zimbabwe reveals how valuable lithium is becoming to the continent—and China’s role in securing it (13:09). And remembering a “Rosie the Riveter” who kept riveting until age 95 (21:38).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
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| 1:00.7 | The Economist. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:12.5 | And I'm Oire Ogunbe. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:21.9 | The green transition is going to lean hard on new parts of the periodic table, but no element is so prized at the moment as lithium for batteries. |
| 1:31.2 | Our correspondent visits Africa's biggest lithium mine, |
| 1:34.6 | finding how China is getting a particularly firm foothold. |
| 1:39.7 | And Eleanor Otto built airplanes for Boeing until she was well into her 90s. |
| 1:45.9 | Our obituries editor pays tribute to the longest working Rosie the Riveter. |
| 1:59.2 | But first. |
| 2:09.8 | Prices are rising all over the place, |
| 2:13.9 | but there's one country where that is, in the long view, good news. |
| 2:14.7 | Japan. |
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