2025-04-16
21 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Bloor.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Texas has been in the news a lot for its fight to stop the flow of illegal migrants.
But a strange thing happened when our correspondent went there.
She found very few people trying to cross the border,
but an alarming rise in police cars driving dangerously fast.
And to say that it's an uncertain world these days is,
well, you listen to the show, you know.
For Europe's citizens and its governments, that uncertainty is manifesting in readiness.
It's becoming a continent of preppers.
First up though.
If I came to you asking to borrow a few bucks to get me through and then I didn't pay it back or not only agreed terms or just didn't get my act together,
you'd be wary the second time, right?
How about if I did that 22 times in a row?
That would sound like we're both unwise with our money.
And yet,
that's more or less what's going on between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund.