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Apr 2021
40m 16s

Checks and Balance: Space race

The Economist
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American house prices have risen more steeply during the pandemic than at any time in the last 15 years. Buyers are swapping big cities for suburbs and smaller, sunnier cities in the South and Mountain West. How might this reshuffle change America's politics?


The Economist’s data journalist James Fransham and Denver correspondent Aryn Braun join, along with John Suthers, mayor of Colorado Springs. 


John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Jon Fasman.


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