John Shields
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A new series of Boss Class kicks off today with one of the biggest jobs in the world—the Google boss dealing with 2 billion users a day. And one of the best—a designer of space Lego. It's funny and useful. Have a listen
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Boss Class from The Economist: Innovation: Coming up with new ideas
Forget the hammocks and ping-pong tables. Creativity takes work. Managers at Google, Lego and a pair of AI startups share advice on breaking through.To listen to the full series, subscribe to Econo...
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Archie Hall
5 months ago
A under-discussed backdrop to yesterday's election results—Britain today feels less pleasant, well-maintained and orderly than a decade ago: from potholes to phone-snatchers. I've spent the past few months digging in to why for
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Super job on super team. Apply!
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Wanted: a senior producer/editor for our Drum Tower podcast
An opportunity to join the staff of The Economist
https://www.economist.com/china/2025/04/28/wanted-a-senior-producereditor-for-our-drum-tower-podcast
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Shashank Joshi
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Our cover this week.
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The Economist
6 months ago
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded
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Lane Greene
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Our cover leader begins: f you failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denied a “turn to prosper”, then congratulations: you have a firmer grip on reality than the President of the United States.
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President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
But the rest of the world can limit the damage
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Best part of this job is when a thing you produced gets props from another producer whose work you admire
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Sue-Lin Wong
8 months ago
My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist and in my new 8-part podcast series, Scam Inc Read the article:
bit.ly/scam-inc
Listen to the podcast:
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Avery Trufelman
7 months ago
This is the best podcast I have heard in a long long time. It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.
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