A.M. Edition for Dec. 21. Gabriel Boric’s landslide win could empower him to embark on a big economic revamp of the market economy and that has unsettled investors. WSJ’s Ryan Dube explains how the former student protest leader plans to raise taxes and dismantle a private pension system in Latin America’s richest nation. Peter Granitz hosts.
Category Archives: Politics
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – December 27
Politics: The New Normal Has Arrived, Metaverse Lords, Future Of Europe
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the Christmas double issue of The Economist. This week: has the new normal already arrived? Plus, meet the lords of the metaverse (10:10) and, a century apart, two men with very different dreams contend for Europe’s future (17:50).
Sunday Morning: News From Zurich, London, Amsterdam And Tokyo
Monocle’s editorial director Tyler Brûlé and panellists Eemeli Isoaho and Chandra Kurt discuss the weekend’s biggest news stories. Plus: we check in with our friends and correspondents in London, Amsterdam and Tokyo.
Saturday Morning: News And Stories From London
Georgina Godwin and the weekend’s biggest topics. Vincent McAviney reviews the newspapers, Andrew Mueller explains what we’ve learned this week and Monocle’s editor in chief Andrew Tuck is back with his weekend column.
Previews: The Economist Magazine – December 18
Morning News: Elections In UK & Hong Kong, Dutch Vote, Italian Art Galleries
We preview the long-delayed Hong Kong legislative elections and explore whether Boris Johnson’s mistakes are starting to take an electoral toll. Plus: Mark Rutte’s record-breaking Dutch coalition and an initiative bringing major art works to regional Italian galleries.
Analysis: Federal Reserve Tapering Explained (WSJ)
The Federal Reserve says it will accelerate the wind-down of its bond-buying program, the biggest step the central bank has taken in reversing its pandemic-era stimulus. Here’s how tapering works, and why it sends markets on edge. Photo illustration: Adele Morgan/WSJ
Morning News: U.S. Fed Fights Inflation, Western Loneliness, Music Charts
America’s central bank plans to pinch off its massive bond-buying programme much faster in a bid to stall inflation; our correspondent says it is perhaps a late-arriving signal—but a promising one.
Loneliness is a growing problem in the rich world but seems particularly acute among American men. And why aged artists are increasingly taking over the December music charts.
Morning News: Ethiopia Rebellion, Reining Crypto In, North Korean Wives
More than a year after a rebellion Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised to put down in weeks, the balance of power keeps shifting—and neighbouring states may soon be drawn in.
To the chagrin of libertarian crypto types, regulators are weighing in on an industry now worth trillions. And the fed-up North Korean wives earning more than their husbands.
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