The Economist
How influential is Nvidia's boss?
- Title
- How influential is Nvidia's boss?
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- How much influence does Nvidia’s boss have over Donald Trump? Our business columnist looks at the extent of tech mogul Jensen Huang’s powers of persuasion over America’s president.
- Title
- Why is Donald Trump picking on Switzerland?
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Donald Trump announced Swiss exports to America will soon face tariffs of 39%, which came as a shock to Switzerland.
- Title
- How OnlyFans transformed porn
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- OnlyFans transformed the online porn industry by charging users to subscribe. Its most famous creator, Bonnie Blue, told The Economist she made $250,000 from the site in March 2025. With the platform now on sale for $8bn, who might buy it?
- Title
- How OnlyFans transformed porn
- Runtime
- 7:28
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- OnlyFans transformed the online porn industry by charging users to subscribe. Its most famous creator, Bonnie Blue, told The Economist she made $250,000 from the site in March 2025. With the platform now on sale for $8bn, who might buy it?
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- Title
- Who is Israel’s surprising ally?
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Which Muslim-majority country is Israel surprisingly close friends with? From oil to weapons, learn how this decades-long partnership has evolved.
- Title
- Donald Trump has started a fight that America can't win
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Trump's sweeping set of tariffs will ultimately make American consumers poorer, as Rachana Shanbhogue, The Economist's business affairs editor, explains.
- Title
- Is AI making you stupid?
- Runtime
- 2:42
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- A growing body of work is exploring the potentially detrimental effects of AI use for creativity and learning. Our AI writer explains why it’s not all doom and gloom on The Intelligence podcast.
- Title
- Why are so many being killed near Gaza's aid sites?
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- “The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip”, according to a group of UN agencies. The Economist has used satellite imagery and videos from inside Gaza to analyse how people have been killed trying to collect basic food supplies.
- Title
- Do Americans have kids if they like the president?
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Does the outcome of America’s presidential election have an effect on whether Democrats and Republicans decide to have children? Our data editor, Dan Rosenheck, explains why there is some evidence that it does #us #fertility #donaldtrump
- Title
- Why are people dying for gold?
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- As the price of gold has risen so has the violence linked to mining it. Cartels in Peru and Colombia now make more money from gold than cocaine. In South Africa dozens of illegal miners died after they were sealed in an abandoned mine.
- Title
- Has Zelensky made a strategic blunder?
- Runtime
- 8:34
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- Ukrainians are protesting after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill undermining the independence of the country’s two main anti-corruption agencies. Jason Palmer, co-host of The Intelligence podcast and Oliver Carroll, our Ukraine correspondent, discuss the consequences of the new law.
Chapters
00:00 - Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies are under threat
00:55 - What is happening in Ukraine?
02:57 - What is the bill intending to do?
04:06 - Are the anti-corruption accusations valid?
05:20 - Why are Ukrainians concerned?
06:46 - Will the protests make a difference?
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- Title
- Why is the UAE backing a genocidal militia?
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 11 months ago
- Description
- The UAE’s support for a genocidal militia in Sudan is helping fuel the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Our Middle East correspondent, Gregg Carlstrom, explores why the United Arab Emirates is involved.
- Title
- Has the MAGA movement arrived in Japan?
- Runtime
- 5:42
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- A Trump-inspired populist party has rocked elections in Japan. Jason Palmer, co-host of The Intelligence podcast and Moeka Iida, our Tokyo-based reporter, discuss how the fringe hard-right Sanseito party made significant gains and why Japanese politics is entering an era of instability
00:00 - Japanese politics is entering an unstable era
01:45 - What was the big debate in this election?
02:39 - How did the ruling party lose its grip?
03:49 - How has social media changed politics in Japan?
04:56 - What’s going to happen to the ruling party?
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- Title
- Is the longest-held American hostage still alive?
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Gareth Browne, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, travelled through the ruins of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria to find out what happened to Austin Tice.
To listen to Gareth’s interviews with key witnesses and follow his journey into the regime’s most notorious prisons, listen to The Economist's Weekend Intelligence.
- Title
- Why is America’s bond market so volatile?
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Joshua Roberts, our capital markets correspondent, gives three reasons why yields are so high and explains how it’s affecting government borrowing across the rich world.
- Title
- Why Vladimir Putin is expanding in Africa
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- After years of using a secretive military company to train violent African regimes, Russian forces are stepping out of the shadows and consolidating Putin’s influence in the region.
- Title
- Is Britain the world’s best bargain?
- Runtime
- 8:00
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Why are American firms suddenly so hungry for British services? Archie Hall, our Britain economics correspondent, explains why there’s a silver lining amid all the bleak news about the British economy.
00:00 - How has Britain become so cheap?
02:30 - The attractiveness of the services economy
03:16 - How America is taking advantage of bargain Britain
04:30 - British assets are also becoming cheap
06:43 - The silver lining
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- Title
- The problem with diversifying investments
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Is it still worth diversifying your investment portfolio? Joshua Roberts, our capital markets correspondent, explains why this strategy for safer returns is becoming increasingly ineffective.
- Title
- Why the cost of rice in Japan has gone crazy
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- The price of rice in Japan has more than doubled in the past year. While some are blaming the shortage on the influx of foreign tourists, Ethan Wu, our Asia business and finance editor, explains why it is really Japan’s broken production system that is to blame
- Title
- WiIl anyone stop Trump, The Lone Ranger?
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Does America need permission to bomb another country? Allies used to insist presidents seek UN approval before military action. However as David Rennie, our geopolitics editor, argues, they are increasingly tolerating Donald Trump’s Lone-Ranger, vigilante methods
- Title
- Why the British love their lawns
- Runtime
- 2:03
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- Playing tennis? Or cricket? You'll need a lawn for that. For centuries the lawn has been synonymous with British culture. But, as our culture correspondent explains, it seems Britons are giving up on their lawns.
- Title
- Inside the Russian arson plot in London
- Runtime
- 2:43
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- What does an arson attack on a warehouse in London have to do with the Russian Wagner Group? Of the five men convicted for the blaze none were Russian citizens. This is part of Vladimir Putin’s plan to cause trouble in the West.
- Title
- Are Britain and France “friends” again?
- Runtime
- 2:21
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- President Macron’s state visit to the UK suggests the countries are closer than they have been in years. But there are still frictions, as our Paris bureau chief, Sophie Pedder, explains
- Title
- Can Donald Trump force a ceasefire in Gaza?
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 12 months ago
- Description
- With Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, heading to the White House, Donald Trump is hoping to announce an end to the war. Our deputy editor, Ed Carr, explains why it will depend on three factors
#Israel #netanyahu #Gaza #DonaldTrump
- Title
- Our top five novels of the year (so far)
- Runtime
- 1:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Looking for a new novel this summer? Rachel Lloyd, our deputy culture editor, shares five of our favourites published in 2025
- Title
- What Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” means for America
- Runtime
- 10:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- President Donald Trump called it a “Big Beautiful Bill”. It’s big, but definitely not beautiful. The three co-hosts of The Economist’s Checks and Balance podcast—Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, Idrees Kahloon, our Washington bureau chief, and John Prideaux, our US editor—discuss the effects Trump’s budget bill will have on America’s lawmaking and on his voter base.
00.00 - Has the “Big Beautiful Bill" killed traditional legislating?
03.37 - How do Trump voters feel about the economic impact of the big beautiful bill?
05.37 - How will the bill change the deployment of renewable energy?
06:58 - How has Trump remade the Republican party?
09:30 - Trump’s economic populism is hollow
Listen to the full episode: https://econ.st/4lwhxh3
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- Title
- Why was Labour so unprepared for power?
- Runtime
- 2:27
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Why was Keir Starmer’s Labour government so unprepared for power? After a shambolic end to its first year in power, The Economist’s British politics correspondent, Matthew Holehouse, analyses what went wrong for Britain’s ruling party.
- Title
- Klarna's CEO on how AI will affect jobs
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The boss of buy-now, pay-later provider Klarna recently admitted he went too far using AI to cut customer service roles and was rehiring people. In an interview with our business affairs editor, Rachana Shanbhogue, he explains why he still expects AI to have a significant impact on jobs in the years ahead
- Title
- America's new ship-killer missiles near Taiwan
- Runtime
- 2:16
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- America has deployed its NMESIS ship-killing missile system to islands near Taiwan for the first time. Hosted on the Philippines' northern island of Basco, NMESIS is small, easy to move and hard to find. America hopes its deployment will help deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan
- Title
- Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” explained
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- It's big, but it's certainly not beautiful. After 27 hours of non-stop voting and debate the American Senate passed President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But, as our US editor, John Prideaux, explains, the bill will make the country more indebted, more unequal and less green.
- Title
- Our five favourite non-fiction books of 2025—so far
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Looking for a new book this summer? Rachel Lloyd, our deputy culture editor, shares five of our favourite non-fiction books of 2025 so far.
- Title
- Has China become cool?
- Runtime
- 6:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Is China becoming a cultural phenomenon? From Labubu dolls to high-tech exports China is making waves abroad. Our producer Jiehao Chen and China correspondent Gabriel Crossley speak on the Drum Tower podcast to discuss China’s pursuit of soft power.
00:00 - China’s softening image
01:07 - What does China’s Communist Party stand to gain?
02:23 - IShowSpeed’s livestream in China
04:08 - So is China cool?
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- Title
- Inside the world's most sophisticated telescope
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- What is the universe made of? How is the Milky Way structured? And what is dark matter? A new observatory at the top of a mountain in Chile will try to answer these questions—and revolutionise astronomy in the process. The Economist’s science editor, Alok Jha, was granted access to understand how the world’s largest digital camera works.
- Title
- What has America gained from its strike on Iran?
- Runtime
- 2:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Donald Trump claims to have “obliterated” Iran's nuclear programme, but early defence reports suggest the damage has cased a delay of only a few months. As our deputy editor, Edward Carr, argues, the American president has gambled, but not yet won.
- Title
- How many years will it take until Europe can defend itself without America's protection?
- Runtime
- 2:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, Rachel Ellehuus, examines the strengths and weaknesses of European military capabilities, in an interview with our defence editor, Shashank Joshi
- Title
- Why do some people get sicker than others?
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Do our genes determine how quickly we recover from illness? Dan Davis, professor at Imperial College London, discusses how biology, not just lifestyle, shapes every infection, with Alok Jha, host of Babbage, our science and technology podcast
- Title
- Has America destroyed Iran's nuclear programme?
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Have Trump’s vast strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability? America attacked three nuclear sites in Iran, using 13-tonne GBU-57s—known as “bunker-busting bombs”—in combat for the first time. Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, analyses how much damage might have been caused
#iran #america #trump #nuclear #israeliranconflict
- Title
- How effective is Israel's air-defence system?
- Runtime
- 3:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Israel's air-defence system is the world's most extensive missile shield. It's intercepting Iranian missiles which are striking deep inside Israel. How does the system work—and for how much longer can it hold?
- Title
- Can Vietnam be the new Singapore?
- Runtime
- 10:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Can Vietnam reinvent its stalling economic model? Mike Bird and Ethan Wu, co-hosts of The Economist’s Money Talks podcast, discuss the country’s new leadership and the growth challenges it faces
00:00 - Vietnam's economic success
02:26 - Why tariffs could dismantle Vietnam’s export economy
05:01 - Vietnam’s model is similar to Singapore
06:50 - Why its harder to climb the development ladder now
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- Title
- Could Iran's regime fall?
- Runtime
- 2:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Iran is facing its biggest external threat in nearly 50 years. Israel has killed its top generals and set back its nuclear programme. Could its regime fall?
- Title
- Will the Israel-Iran war make oil more expensive?
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Could the Iran-Israel war push up oil prices? Matthieu Favas, our commodities editor, explains how the conflict could rock global oil markets.
- Title
- Can Israel destroy Iran’s nuclear programme?
- Runtime
- 3:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Israel has hit some of Iran’s most important nuclear sites but doing lasting damage to Iran’s nuclear ability is extremely difficult, as our defence editor, Shashank Joshi, explains
- Title
- Israel's attack on Iran was a bold, but terrifying gamble
- Runtime
- 3:26
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Israel's strike on Iran might just mark a devastating blow against the malevolent regime and the beginning of a transformation in the Middle East, but it is also a huge gamble, as our deputy editor, Edward Carr, explains
- Title
- How Trump is trying to redefine legal language
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- President Trump is trying to redefine legal terms, to push through his controversial policies on deportations and tariffs on trade. Our language correspondent, Lane Greene, explains why this could be a disaster for America
- Title
- The deadly new weapon in the Ukraine war
- Runtime
- 2:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Fibre-optic drones can avoid electronic interference, making them almost impossible to defend against #drone #ukraine #russia
- Title
- Will AI take Apple’s crown?
- Runtime
- 10:54
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Apple may have brought us the iPhone and changed the world, but it’s having a hard time keeping up with rapid advances in AI. Our AI correspondent, Alex Hern, discusses whether Apple will lose its crown on The Intelligence podcast
00:00 - Why Apple is falling behind AI
04:14 - Can Apple catch-up?
05:36 - How will this impact consumer behaviour
07:17 - What does this mean for Tim Cook?
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- Title
- How Donald Trump escalated LA’s protests
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Donald Trump’s decision to order National Guard troops to Los Angeles turned protests against immigration raids into major clashes. Our West Coast correspondent, Aryn Braun, reports from the ground #la #laprotests #losangeles #uspolitics #immigration
- Title
- The GOP's voting crackdown could backfire
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Republicans are making it harder to vote. But what if this decades-old strategy no longer helps them win? The very voters these laws target might now be the ones the Republican party needs
- Title
- How will South Korea’s new president balance China against America?
- Runtime
- 8:07
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- South Korea has elected Lee Jae-myung, from the liberal Democratic Party, as president after six months of political upheaval. But the next president’s political promises have been inconsistent and it's unclear what kind of leader his voters will actually get. Noah Sneider, our East Asia bureau chief, explains on our podcast, The Intelligence
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00:00 - What does Lee Jae-myung’s victory mean for South Korea?
02:30 - What kind of leader will Lee Jae-myung be?
03:39 - What can be expected of his presidency?
04:56 - Will he focus on domestic politics?
06:05 - How will he change South Korea’s foreign policy?
06:58 - How will he balance China against America?
- Title
- India is not as hot as you'd expect
- Runtime
- 2:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Could pollution be shielding South Asia from the worst of climate change? The region has been warming at a slower rate than the rest of the world and many scientists think this anomaly could be due to smog. But pollution is a bigger killer than heat stress in places like India today—South Asia’s dilemma will soon be whether to fry or to choke
