For 180 years, the economist has been looking beyond the headlines,

cutting through the noise with clear thinking.

You can find that same sound reasoning in our podcast called The Intelligence,

with me, Jason Palmer, and me, Oire Ogunby.

Every weekday, we speak to our global network of editors and correspondents,

bringing you clarity and context on the stories shaping your world.

From global conflicts.

It was quite a journey to get to see President Zelensky.

We first of all drove through Kiev, past the anti-tank obstacles,

the fortified checkpoints.

There were a lot of men with guns.

We had to change cars.

And eventually we arrived at a big metal gate.

The aid who was accompanying, as I remember this very vividly, said,

welcome to our fortress. To business and finance. Silicon Valley Bank went bust in the same way as Ernest Hemingway put it in his novel, The Sun also rises gradually and then suddenly.

To geopolitics. Lula wants Brazil to have a seat at the table on the most important issues of the day.

He invested a lot in foreign policy during his first two terms in office. His achievements included

forming the bricks, which is a block of emerging market countries that includes Brazil, Russia, India,

China and South Africa. And he also tried to broker a deal over Iran's nuclear program

with Turkey. To culture, science and technology. This reflects a deeper divide within the AI

community more broadly that some experts are very worried about this and are sounding alarms and

others are saying, oh, come on, don't be silly. We go to the places where news is being made,

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