The Economist
Audio content from The Economist magazine, including interviews with journalists and experts on world politics, business, finance, economics, science, technology, culture and the arts.
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Chris Woodhead on education
The British government's education policy is a disaster. It's time for market solutions, says the former chief inspector of schools
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The poor
Even those with very little money have a sophisticated approach to finance
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We explain changes to the podcast
Daniel Franklin, our executive editor, introduces a format change and explains how to get all our programmes from iTunes
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The view from Brazil
How the church is faring in the world's biggest Catholic country
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International banking
A tamer banking industry is emerging from the debris of the old, failed one, says Andrew Palmer, The Economist's banking correspondent
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A pope of words, not gestures
Our correspondents in Rome and London talk to Massimo Franco and Austen Ivereigh about the pope's communication problem and the coming encyclical
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Political expenses scandal
It has taken an almighty crisis for MPs to start cleaning up their act
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The war in Afghanistan
Why America's commander in Afghanistan was fired
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Intel's antitrust ruling
Are the chipmaker's pricing policies anticompetitive?
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Pope Benedict
The pope's visit to the Holy Land adds another public-relations disaster to the string that already exists. Why should this be?
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We stress test the stress tests
Our correspondents give credit to Treasury for testing at all, but note that banks need be not only solvent, but healthy
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May 9th 2009
Europe's economies, vaccine makers prepare for the worst, American consumers, and the man who lost China
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May 7th 2009
A race to claim seabeds, Intel's anti-trust problems, election results in India and the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow
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Jose Miguel Vivanco on human rights
The Americas director for Human Rights Watch on the problem with using the Mexican military to fight the narcotics trade
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James Matthews on Republican anger
A county commissioner from Pennsylvania says voters can't identify with Republican party leaders who don't embrace nuance
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May 2nd 2009
Swine flu, Obama and trade, the TALF, and Vilnius
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April 30th 2009
The swine flu pandemic, Chrysler declares bankruptcy, South Africa's elections and stress tests for banks
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Henrique de Campos Meirelles
The president of Brazil's central bank on the policies that have kept a bread-and-butter banking system largely unscathed
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April 23rd 2009
A critique of Barak Obama's first 100 days in office: the economy, health care, foreign policy and a popularity check
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Asylum seekers in Australia
Our correspondent on three waves of 'boat people', Kevin Rudd's new policies and how attitudes in Australia are changing
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