2025-02-17
24 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Donald Shoup wrote a bicycle, but his obsession was traffic.
specifically how to make cities more efficient by having the right parking spaces and ways to charge for them.
Our obituaries editor remembers a man who got cities moving.
Before that though,
we're trying to parse a pile of news from a bewildering conference over the weekend.
A Bundespräsident, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friend.
Welcome to this year's Munich Security Conference.
Before we start...
For presidents and prime ministers, defense secretaries and spy chiefs,
the Munich Security Conference is a huge annual fixture.
Since the 1960s, this is where a lot of Western diplomacy gets done.
Business deals get struck.
During the coming days, we have to once again deal with Putin's war against Ukraine.
I warmly welcome the Ukrainian delegation.
But the meeting doesn't often make for big global headlines.
This year, though, this year was a news gusher.