The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Blau.
Today on the show, Germany's left-wing Die Linke wins over the young
and a selection of our readers' hacks for managing managers.
First up, though.
President Donald Trump put Sharpie to paper yesterday, inking the long-awaited and much-touted deal with Iran.
With that, a reminder that for all the power plays and posturing,
he always has his eye on markets and money.
I didn't want to see economic catastrophe.
If you kept this going, that could have happened.
But all I know is every time we talked about the possibility of peace,
the stock market shot up like a rocket ship.
You know who must have been glad Mr. Trump was preoccupied with Iran?
Kevin Warsh, freshly minted chair of the Federal Reserve.
It was rate-setting time yesterday, his first.
What to expect from this lifetime hawk who got all dovish when angling for the job?
From the next chair who should expect relentless Trumpian pressure to lower rates?
As you saw a few moments ago,