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 The Economist asks: LGBT at work | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:55

John Browne, author of “The Glass Closet”, and IBM’s Claudia Brind-Woody discuss the best ways for corporations to enhance their

 Money talks: Argentina in the black | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:21

Argentina's debt crisis seems finally to be coming to an end. Will its deal with creditors enable it to borrow abroad again at last? Should lenders to Venezuela, on the brink of its own default, applaud or shudder?

 The week ahead: Who is the real Xi? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:38

Our US editor gives us his forecast for Super Tuesday, China's Xi Jinping gets ready for sweeping leadership changes and Indonesia embarks on a new era of economic development

 Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the February 27th 2016 edition | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:59

This week: Hollywood’s big stars lose their sparkle, the thrills of becoming an animal and how jogging can stave off cancer

 Narconomics: How to run a drug cartel | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:40

Tom Wainwright, The Economist's Britain editor and former Mexico correspondent, explores the parallels between the $300 billion illegal drugs business and the corporate world, from franchising to corporate social responsibility

 Babbage: Apple and the reason for sex | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:23

Apple clashes with the FBI over accessing iPhone data and scientists finally prove why we keep having sex

 Money talks: Trumponomics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:20:25

Donald Trump's presidential campaign is astounding political analysts and flummoxing economists; and we also look at whether high denomination bank notes are useful only to criminals Correction: We attribute an analysis of Donald Trump's economic proposals at 2:40 minutes to the Tax Policy Centre, when in fact it is from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. We regret the error.

 The week ahead: Slim hopes for ceasefire | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:49

As Syria's wars within wars become ever more tangled, our editors discuss Russia's impact on the conflict; and in the world of sport -- FIFA elects a new president

 Intelligent Life: How to have a good death | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:08

As we live longer, death gets pushed further to the fringes of our lives. In this podcast, Maggie Fergusson discusses how our relationship with it is changing, the question of assisted dying, and how she might face her own end

 Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the February 20th 2016 edition | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:19

This week: soggy sales in the cereal world, the ups and downs of Utopianism and India’s penchant for hard liquor

 The Economist asks: What makes a happy workplace? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:21:08

Anne McElvoy speaks to Gareth Jones, co-author of “Why Should Anyone Work Here?” and The Economist's Adrian Wooldridge about ways to keep workers content

 Babbage: 5G to unite them all | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:08

The fifth generation of mobile network promises to take us one step closer to wireless paradise and researchers infect patients with modified viruses to fight cancer

 Money talks: Clutching at straws | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:56

This week we discuss whether policy-makers are out of ammunition to fight global financial jitters, pondering efforts to prop up oil prices and signs that central banks will ease monetary policy further

 The week ahead: Trumpism marches south | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:22:38

Republican presidential candidates vie for South Carolina’s primary nomination and European leaders meet to discuss a proposal on the future terms of Britain’s EU membership

 Tasting menu: Audio highlights from the February 13th 2016 edition | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:19:18

This week: the first glimpse of gravitational waves, how con artists fool the world and the economics of dating

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