Today

Bye bye Bibi? Israel’s election results

Binyamin Netanyahu has underperformed but so has his main opponent, Gadi Eisenkot. Who will form a government? We decipher what the messy results mean for Israel. Our American-midterms series heads south to Georgia. And how film critics and audiences have agreed to disagree.Guest ... Show More

21m 19s

Yesterday

Act of Claude: Anthropic’s IPO bid

It would be the first public listing from a frontier-AI firm—and perhaps the largest IPO of all time. We comb through the filing to understand how the company is thinking about itself and its industry. Our American-midterms series continues in the battleground state of Alaska. An ... Show More

23m 34s

Oct 26

From this day, fourth: Lula’s surprise win

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, staged a historic comeback to win a fourth term. We ask how he did it, and what he must do next. Each day this week our correspondents in America are focusing on crucial midterm-election races; today we start in Texas. And tote-bag e ... Show More

27m 22s

Mar 2023

Stopping the spread: how to fix the banks

Silicon Valley Bank. Signature Bank. Credit Suisse. The world’s banks look wobbly, leading to fears of broader economic pain. Our economics editor <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/03/16/whats-wrong-with-the-banks?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm ... Show More

23m 17s

Mar 2023

End run: Silicon Valley Bank

An old-fashioned bank run has caused American regulators to intervene <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/03/13/americas-government-steps-in-to-protect-depositors-at-silicon-valley-bank?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintel ... Show More

22m 14s

Mar 2023

A bit Fed up: central banks’ dilemma

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25m 8s

Mar 2023

Deja vu? Another weekend of bank turmoil

It’s been a tough couple of weeks for the global banking sector — the embattled lender Credit Suisse was purchased by fellow Swiss rival UBS for a motley sum of around $3 billion. University of Michigan professor Erik Gordon explains what that means amid the wider unease about th ... Show More

6m 41s

Mar 2023

Should I be worried about all the bank failures?

Are we in the middle of a financial crisis? Today’s show breaks down the latest bank crises — from Credit Suisse to First Republic. Read more: Another week, another banking calamity.  On Sunday, Swiss banking giant UBS ca ... Show More

18m 31s

May 2023

American Bank Carnage part 2

The American banking system is experiencing a slow grinding crisis. We explore, why this is happening, why now and why the Fed adopted a completely different attitude to the 2023 banking crisis than the 2008 crisis and what this all means for the economy and the way we distr ... Show More

31m 17s

Apr 2023

First Republic Teeters, Wages Rise

Federal regulators dissected Silicon Valley and Signature banks today, delivering post-mortems on last month’s banking crisis. But on Wall Street, the crisis is far from over, with shares of First Republic Bank plummeting amid fears it could go into receivership. CNN Political Di ... Show More

8m 57s

Mar 2023

After Hours Special: The Crisis in Banking

Mihir and Felix think about the current crisis in banking. Why did Silicon Valley Bank fail? Is the demise of Credit Suisse a result of the contagion in the United States? And what’s the future of banking? Will the big banks get even bigger? Even more prone to fail? Would we be b ... Show More

36m 53s

Stopping the spread: how to fix the bank...