The Intelligence: The power of positive tinkering
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Bank of Japan has ended its grand experiment in unconventional monetary policy—how did it work, and what happens now that it has concluded? Ahead of Florida’s presidential primary our correspondent pays a visit, examining the state’s hard swing to the right (10:17). And the next in our Economist Reads series: why God seems to care so much about sex (19:09).
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| 1:15.0 | I'm Ora Ogunby. |
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| 1:20.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:27.0 | Today Republican primaries begin in Florida and they will look pretty different from those of cycles past. |
| 1:34.0 | Our deputy editor takes a road trip down south to find out why the sunshine state has swung |
| 1:40.0 | so decisively to the right. |
| 1:43.0 | And we treat you to one of our economist reads, our collection of the essential books on all kinds of topics. |
| 1:51.0 | Today, what to read to understand why God seems so preoccupied with the pleasures of the flesh. But first. |
| 2:07.0 | Back in the |
| 2:10.0 | Back in 2016, Japan's Central Bank made a daring move. |
| 2:18.0 | The Bank of Japan has cut interest rates to minus 0.1% from plus 0.1%. The surprise move to negative rates is to combat |
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