The Economist
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Jason Palmer.
And I'm Rosie Blau.
Today on the show, how America's meatpackers are caught in the middle of a price beef,
and making edible electronics go down safer.
First up, though.
Today, Spain's Parliament will be dissolved
because yesterday Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez revealed himself to be a betting man.
He's called a snap election for the end of November, many months early.
Why?
It starts with an 87-year-old woman named Mari Carmen Abascal.
She had lived in her flat in Madrid for 70 years.
Then a smallish property firm jacked up the rent by a factor of five.
Last month, unable to pay, she was evicted as forcibly as required to evict an 87-year-old.
That touched a nerve across the whole country.
Protests spread.
Back in Madrid, demonstrators camped out in a popular square.
For eight years, Mr Sánchez has been in office heading up the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party,
all the while pledging to fix, among other things, the country's housing crisis.