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At this week’s UN General Assembly meeting in New York, an AI executive delivered dire warnings via video. President Trump threatened to annihilate Iran. China’s Xi Jinping skipped the meeting altogether. Eight decades after its founding as a guarantor of world peace, does the UN ...  Show more

Diesel prices are hitting new highs, and voters aren’t happy. With the midterms approaching, the Trump administration is trying to find ways to curb fuel costs, including a potential US diesel export ban. On today’s Big Take podcast: The political fallout of sky-high diesel price ...  Show more

Over the past decade, politicians from both parties have courted American voters with an enticing economic prospect – the dream of bringing manufacturing and manufacturing jobs back to America. They've pushed for that dream with tariffs and tax breaks and subsidies. But what happ ...  Show more

The growth of electric vehicles has heightened concerns about China's current dominance in lithium-ion batteries. So as part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the US government is spending money and providing tax credits to companies that are attempting to build up a domestic suppl ...  Show more

We discuss Joe Biden plans to boost the US economy through the landmark legislation known as the Inflation Reduction Act. We hear the arguments both for and against its potential to develop green industries in the US.

We hear from the man who came up with the term BRICS ...

There are several sources of tension right now between the US and China. Pure trade anxiety is a big one, with the US having imposed tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, solar panels and other important industrial components. Then, of course, there are direct geopolitical con ...