The Intelligence: The Economist explains
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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On our website and in our app, “The Economist explains” is one of the best-read features. Today we invite a few of their authors to keep explaining. What is tranq dope? Why did France get so het up about bedbugs (06:48)? Can superstars’ stadium shows actually affect inflation (11:50)? And, having at last seen Donald Trump’s, what is the back story of the mugshot (17:39)?
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| 0:30.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Ora Ogdenbei. |
| 0:45.0 | Most of weekdays, as you surely know by now, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:55.0 | Today though a little something different to draw attention to what we call our explainers. |
| 1:01.0 | They started as an online only feature on our website called The Economist explains |
| 1:05.0 | short sharp answers to questions that the news agenda poses. |
| 1:09.0 | What's the difference between a ceasefire and a humanitarian pause or who are the Huti rebels? |
| 1:15.1 | What is French shoring or El Nino? |
| 1:17.1 | Yeah, this year I really liked the one about why Winnie the Pooh makes she-jinnping so uncomfortable. A personal favorite for me was what makes ultra processed foods so bad for your health? |
| 1:28.0 | It was both fun and kind of frightening. |
| 1:30.0 | These explainers have been wildly popular on the website and they're a natural fit to our mission here on the intelligence telling you not just what happened but why and what it means. |
| 1:40.0 | So we don't flag these up as explainers, we sneak them into your daily diet. |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, you're welcome. |
| 1:47.0 | And today we're going to go through four of our most popular ones from 2023. |
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