Explore "economic sanctions" with insightful episodes like "Ukraine Two Years On – Your Questions Answered", "Red Sea Navy Task Force, BoJ Unmoved & Apple's Watch Ban", "Sunak grapples with ruling on flagship asylum plan", "Russia 'preparing to blockade Ukraine' & Ukrainian forces continue to advance" and "The limits of economic sanctions against Russia are showing" from podcasts like ""Global News Podcast", "Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition", "FT News Briefing", "Ukraine: The Latest" and "Make Me Smart"" and more!
For two years, the Russian president Vladimir Putin has been waging a brutal conflict in Ukraine - the bloodiest in Europe since the Second World War. But after tens of thousands of deaths on both sides who has the upper hand? What is life like in Ukraine, and Russia, today? And when will the killing end? The Global News Podcast and Ukrainecast have come together to answer your questions.
Your morning briefing, the business news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
(1) US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has announced a new maritime task force intended to protect commercial vessels travelling through the Red Sea from attacks by Houthi militants. The countries involved in the new task force — dubbed Operation Prosperity Guardian — include the US, the UK, Bahrain, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Seychelles and Spain.
(2) The Bank of Japan offered little for rate-hike bulls as it stuck with the world's last negative interest rate and kept guidance unchanged on future policy in a decision that pared some of the yen's recent gains.
(3) Apple will stop selling the latest versions of its smartwatch in the US due to a patent dispute, taking some of its best-selling devices off the market during the busy holiday season. Engineers at the company are racing to make changes to algorithms on the device that measure a user's blood oxygen level — a feature that Masimo has argued infringes its patents.
(4) Nippon Steel has defended the whopping 142% premium it's paying for United States Steel, as the Japanese company seeks to reinforce its position as a global titan to counter a weak domestic outlook.
(5) The UK government has lost close to £300 million ($379 million) on the £1.14 billion portfolio of start-up investments it made during the pandemic to prop up struggling young businesses.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is attempting to save a plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda; an EU proposal will see Denmark enforcing the price cap on Russian oil by checking ships in the Baltic Sea; Plus, EY names a new CEO.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Sunak vows emergency legislation as Supreme Court rules against Rwanda policy
EY picks Janet Truncale as first woman to lead Big Four firm
Denmark could block Russian oil tankers from reaching markets
This episode of FT News Briefing was produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Manuela Saragosa, Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.
Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Day 517. Today we bring you updates from the warzone as Ukraine takes ground in the south and the east, analyse yesterday’s leaked German intelligence report on the Ukrainian offensive, and David Knowles speaks to economics reporter Melissa Lawford on the warning signs appearing around the Russian economy.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.
Joe Barnes (Brussels Correspondent). @Barnes_Joe on Twitter.
Melissa Lawford (Economics Reporter). @MelissaLawford on Twitter.
Subscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatest
Email: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Leaked documents show Russia could fund another year of war with Ukraine despite a whole lot of U.S. sanctions designed to throw a wrench in the Russian economy. Plus, diesel prices are half what they were a year ago. We’ll get into why gas prices are falling and what it signals about the direction of the economy. And, to keep or not to keep butter in the fridge?
Here’s everything we talked about today:
Got a question about the economy, business or technology? Leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART or email us at makemesmart@marketplace.org.
Krystal and Saagar discuss Rachel Maddow refusing to broadcast Trump's speech live, the Petrodollar collapsing with new China deals, Ukraine open to negotiating with Russia, the West admitting the Nordstream bombing coverup, Russia's dire warning after Finland officially joins NATO, Trump swamping the competition in fundraising dollars, Twitter labeling NPR "US State affiliated media", Don Lemon's psscho sexist behavior, Krystal looks into how dozens of Feds were found inside the Proud Boys, Saagar looks into millions fleeing California and New York for cities like Texas, Florida, and Arizona, and we're joined by local Chicago politics buff Frank Calabrese to talk about how Leftist Pro Union candidate Brandon Johnson was able to beat a Pro Cop candidate in the Chicago mayoral race.
To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/
To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl
Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Your morning briefing. The news you need in just 15 minutes.
On today's podcast:
1) We're on the ground in Kyiv to mark one year of war
2) China proposes a cease-fire in Ukraine that's quickly rejected
3) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says a soft landing is still possible for the US economy
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Krystal and Saagar discuss tensions between Russia and NATO, Biden's gas price plans, GOP Sen. candidate Eric Greitens' new ad, Hillary's midterm advice, Taylor Lorenz demoted, TikTok lies, economic realignment, and French elections!
To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/
To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl
Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/
New Yorker Feature: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rise-of-the-internets-creative-middle-class
Daniel Nichanian: https://boltsmag.org/
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Russian political scientist Ilya Matveev recently described the impact of the West’s sanctions on his country as “30 years of economic development thrown into the bin.” He’s not exaggerating. Economists expect the Russian economy to contract by at least 15 percent of G.D.P. this year. Inflation is spiking. An exodus of Russian professionals is underway. Stories of shortages and long lines for basic consumer goods abound.
The U.S. and its allies have turned to sanctions as a way of taking action against Russia’s atrocities without direct military intervention. But to describe these sanctions as anything short of all-out economic warfare is euphemistic. Measures like these might be cloaked in the technocratic language of finance and economics, but the immiseration they cause is anything but abstract.
Nicholas Mulder is a historian at Cornell University and the author of the terrifyingly relevant new book “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War.” In it, Mulder focuses on the last time economic warfare was waged at the scale we’re witnessing today, the period between World War I and World War II. And the book’s central lesson is this: We ultimately don’t know what’s going to happen when sanctions of this magnitude collide with the ideologies, myths and political dynamics of a given country. They could persuade the targeted country to back down. But they could also make it so desperate that it becomes more aggressive or lashes out — as Germany and Japan did on the eve of World War II.
So this is a discussion about what kind of weapon sanctions are, whether they actually achieve their goals and how they might shape the future of the Russia-Ukraine conflict — and the world. We also explore how sanctions “weaponize inflation,” whether they could lead to Vladimir Putin’s downfall in Russia, the toll they have taken on the Russian economy, how the West can leverage its sanctions to help bring about an end to the war in Ukraine, whether a European energy embargo could backfire, how this economic war is destabilizing countries around the world, the humanitarian crisis U.S. sanctions are helping create in Afghanistan, and what a foreign policy that didn’t rely so heavily on sanctions could look like.
This episode is guest hosted by Rogé Karma, the staff editor for “The Ezra Klein Show.” Rogé has been with the show since July 2019, when it was based at Vox. He works closely with Ezra on everything related to the show, from editing to interview prep to guest selection. At Vox, he also wrote articles and conducted interviews on topics ranging from policing and racial justice to democracy reform and the coronavirus.
Mentioned:
“The Inflation Weapon: How American Sanctions Harm Iranian Households” by Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
“Iran, Sanctions and Inflation as a Weapon of Mass Destruction” by Spencer Ackerman
Oligarchy by Jeffrey A. Winters
“If Joe Biden Doesn’t Change Course, This Will Be His Worst Failure” by Ezra Klein
Book recommendations:
Collapse by Vladislav M. Zubok
The Perfect Fascist by Victoria de Grazia
My Century by Aleksander Wat
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Kate Sinclair and Mary Marge Locker; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.
2:39 Understanding where all sides stand in the Russia/Ukraine War three weeks in
15:21 Sanctions risking a major food shortage: possible solutions, how we got here, creating distributed manufacturing and supply chains, capitalist incentives flipping
34:59 Breaking down the second- and third-order effects of the massive sanctions on Russia; best case/worst case outcomes for this new form of economic warfare, deglobalization
49:26 US economy big picture outlook: inflation, rising rates, decreasing uncertainty potentially a bullish sign in public markets; how that flows to private markets
1:02:06 Rewriting foreign policy playbooks
Follow the besties:
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks
Follow the pod:
https://twitter.com/theallinpod
https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast
Intro Music Credit:
https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg
Intro Video Credit:
https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect
Referenced in the show:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/russia-troop-deaths.html
https://www.axios.com/zelensky-russian-invasion-ukraine-ea623eb5-4a14-4458-9640-af981081e4a4.html
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1504601558184517637
https://uscnpm.org/2022/03/12/hu-wei-russia-ukraine-war-china-choice/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/16/ukraine-zelensky-information-war/
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1504824837964926981
https://twitter.com/ClintEhrlich/status/1504618754784735232
https://www.ft.com/content/7b341e46-d375-4817-be67-802b7fa77ef1
https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/images/Fig4.png
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/cu22
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1504214235114577926
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/10/there-are-more-than-11-million-open-jobs-in-america-right-now.html
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/16/business/fed-meeting-interest-rates
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1503989745939980292
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/15/ukraine-russia-war-sovereignty-negotiations/
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/politics/ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-biden-white-house/index.html
https://www.state.gov/u-s-ukraine-charter-on-strategic-partnership/
https://www.amazon.com/Changing-World-Order-Nations-Succeed/dp/1982160276/
Russia calls off humanitarian deals and ratchets up indiscriminate military attacks; Vladimir Putin cracks down on dissent and threatens a wider war; and the West talks about shipping planes into Ukraine.
Okay, this is epic. Get Ben Shapiro merch here: https://utm.io/uedoS
Pick up your copy of A Tale of Two Cities and join Third Thursday Book Club now to be a part of next months Q&A: thirdthursdaybookclub.com
Stopping the attack on America starts with exposing the source: from within. Subscribe to The Daily Wire and start streaming The Enemy Within today. https://utm.io/uejBd
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tim finds a solution to the Russian and Ukrainian war and saves the Summer America desperately needs, and discusses why the most expensive house in Los Angeles finally sold.
Bonus episodes every week:
▶▶ https://www.patreon.com/thetimdillonshow
See Tim Live on the road:
▶▶ http://timdilloncomedy.com/#shows
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
👨🦱 HAIR LOSS:
▶▶ https://www.keeps.com/TimDillon
🚬 QUIT SMOKING:
Use code TIM:
BIRD DOGS!
▶▶ https://www.birddogs.com/ use code TIMDILLON
DOORDASH
▶▶ Download the Doordash app and enter code TIMDILLON to get 25% off.
MASTER WORKS
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃:
📸 Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/timjdillon/
🐦 Twitter:
https://www.twitter.com/TimJDillon
🌍 Tim Dillon Live Dates!:
http://timdilloncomedy.com/#shows
📹 Subscribe to the channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC161r7ShBvMxfyzCtiSMRbg
Listen on Spotify!
https://open.spotify.com/show/2gRd1woKiAazAKPWPkHjds
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
▶▶ Ed McMahon
benavery33@gmail.com
https://www.instagram.com/benaveryisgood/
https://twitter.com/benaveryisgood
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
#TheTimDillonShow
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Krystal and Saagar provide a battle update between Russia and Ukraine, decisions being made by China, Russian oligarchs' wealth being taken, Trump flip flopping on Putin, media thirsting for war, economic toll of sanctions, the case for nuclear energy, and an interview with congressman Ro Khanna!
To become a Breaking Points Premium Member and watch/listen to the show uncut and 1 hour early visit: https://breakingpoints.supercast.com/
To listen to Breaking Points as a podcast, check them out on Apple and Spotify
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-points-with-krystal-and-saagar/id1570045623
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Kbsy61zJSzPxNZZ3PKbXl
Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/
Ro Khanna’s Book: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781982163341
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
As Vladimir Putin reportedly takes a major Ukrainian city, the West runs out of tools to fight him; and the Biden administration continues working with Russia to help out Iran.
Okay, this is epic. Get Ben Shapiro merch here: https://utm.io/uedoS
Pick up your copy of A Tale of Two Cities and join Third Thursday Book Club now to be a part of next months Q&A: thirdthursdaybookclub.com
Stopping the attack on America starts with exposing the source: from within. Subscribe to The Daily Wire and start streaming The Enemy Within today. https://utm.io/uejBd
NBA star Jonathan Isaac has withstood immense pressure to conform to popular social issues. He’s now writing a book about his experience- and is publishing with the Daily Wire. Pre-order your copy now: https://utm.io/ud96e
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
There’s the Russia-Ukraine war that’s easy to follow in the news right now. We can watch Russian bombs falling on Ukraine, see Russian tanks smoking on the side of the road, hear from Ukrainian resistance fighters livestreaming their desperate defense.
But there’s another theater to this war that’s harder to see, but may well decide the outcome: the economic war that West is waging on Russia. Europe and the United States initially responded with a limited set of sanctions but then expanded them into a counterattack capable of crushing the Russian economy. Vladimir Putin, for one, understands the danger: As the force of the West’s measures multiplied, he readied his nuclear forces in a bid to warn Europe and the United States off. This is terrifying territory.
So I asked Adam Tooze — a brilliant economic historian, the director of the European Institute at Columbia, and the author of the indispensable “Chartbook” newsletter — to explain how the war in the financial markets is shaping the war in streets of Ukraine. What he gave me was a whole new way to see how Putin had readied his country for conflict, the leverage that Russia’s energy exports gave it, how the dreams of the globalizers had cracked, and what the West both was and wasn’t doing in response.
But this is two conversations, not one. On Friday, Tooze and I recorded just as the war began. That was a conversation about the economics of the war as both Russia and the West understood it when the bombing began. But on Monday, we spoke again, because so much had changed. Rather than splice the two discussions into an artificial omniscience, I’ve linked them, because I think they reveal more in sequence: They show how fast this war is reshaping the politics around it, how quickly the escalation is coming, how rapidly the plans are crumbling.
So we discuss the sanctions that the West has deployed against Russia, how Europe’s dependence on Russian energy exports undermined the West’s response, what Putin understood about the dark side of economic interdependence, how Ukraine’s remarkable resistance — and the remarkable leadership of its president, Volodymyr Zelensky — reshaped the politics and policies in the West, how this war could alter the geopolitical calculus of China and Taiwan, the new economic order that is emerging, and more.
Mentioned:
“Putin’s Challenge to Western hegemony - the 2022 edition” by Adam Tooze (Chartbook)
“The economic consequences of the war in Ukraine” (The Economist)
Book Recommendations:
The Economic Weapon by Nicholas Mulder
The End of the End of History by Alex Hochuli, George Hoare and Philip Cunliffe
The Future of Money by Eswar S. Prasad
Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.
You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.
“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld; audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Our executive producer is Irene Noguchi. Special thanks to Kristin Lin and Kristina Samulewski.
Stay up to date
For any inquiries, please email us at hello@podcastworld.io
