Academy Award Slap and a Twitter Poison Pill

Zhu Rongji went from being branded a political outcast to becoming one of the most important economic reformers in modern Chinese history. As mayor of Shanghai, vice premier, central bank governor and eventually premier, he helped tackle inflation, restructure China’s huge state- ...  Show more

For nearly thirty years, extremely low interest rates in Japan have made the yen one of the world’s most important funding currencies. Investors have borrowed cheap yen and invested the money in higher-yielding assets around the world. But as the Bank of Japan raises interest rat ...  Show more

Controversy at the Oscars as Will Smith hits Chris Rock… Adam is joined by the BBC’s Culture Editor Katie Razzall and LA-based entertainment reporter KJ Matthews to discuss the background to the slap - and the possible repercussions. Also… the UK ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Sim ...  Show more

True Geordie and Laurence McKenna discuss the recent Oscars controversy where Will Smith slapped Chris Rock after a joke was made about Will’s wife, Jada. ⏯ Watch here: https://youtu.be/1lDOD8aIhxg 🦈 GYMSHARK: https://gym.sh/TrueGeordie 💡 Business email: info@truegeordie.com 🎧 ...  Show more

The Oscars were bordering on irrelevancy until Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Chamberlin, and hosted by Sean Rameswar ...  Show more

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