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Tokyo is cheaper than NYC: World's once priciest city now a bargain

With Japan's once-feared currency plummeting to thirty-year lows and the country quietly sliding into recession, Tokyo is a relative bargain in 2024. New York is suddenly the lion, while Tokyo — for so many years seemingly out of our league — is now the easy, affordable alternative. Here's a guide for one of the world's most fascinating cities -- and how to do affordably enough that you might want to extend your stay.

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3 Reasons Behind PM Modi's Popularity As Listed By The Economist

Elites may usually dislike populist leaders globally, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeing increasing support among educated voters, international publication The Economist has said.

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Does Joe Biden's re-election campaign have a Gaza problem?

Does Joe Biden's re-election campaign have a Gaza problem?
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The Economist Panics Over 'Growing Peril' of National Conservatism

"The Economist" magazine warns this week of the “growing peril” of a national conservatism that is spreading like wildfire around the planet.

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Amid fourth winter of death, COVID excess death toll approaches 30 million globally

After a two-month hiatus, <em>The Economist</em> resumed publishing their daily global excess deaths estimates, showing that more than 700,000 people have died than expected above pre-pandemic levels during the ongoing JN.1 wave.

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Smerconish

analytics at abc news, senior journalist for the economist, and the author of "strength in numbers: how polls work and why we need them" and we'll get to the data in a moment. the intangible, the weather is going to be cold. to me that says whoever has the most passionate base is going to come out and provide victory for their candidate. your thought? >> yeah, look, it's going to be minus 20, minus 30 wind chill in iowa. i do expect that that will have some impact on the race. we can expect, in other words, some level of polling error, i would suspect, just because you've brought up the historical data, michael, i'll just cite there's usually a five percentage point difference between now a candidate is polling and the actual share of the vote that they get. so there's some precedent for surprise. you add on top of that this nasty weather. i expect, as you say, that the

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Smerconish

he was a senior data journalist and u.s. correspondent for the economist. and he is the author of strength in numbers, how polls work and why we need them. we'll get to the data in a moment, but the intangible all of a sudden, the weather. going to be cold. to me that says whoever has the most passionate base is going to come out and provide victory for their candidate. your thought. >> yeah, look, it will be minus 20, minus 30 windchill in iowa. i do expect that that will have some impact on the race. we can expect in other words some level of polling error i would suspect. just because you already brought up the historical data. and i'll just cite there is usually five percentage point difference between how a candidate isle forring and the actual share of the vote that they get. so some precedent for sure price. you add on top of that the nasty weather, i expect as you say

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Verified Live

grant shapps says it was the largest such attack yet. us central command says they were shot down with no injuries or damage reported, adding that it was the 26th attack by the iranian—backed houthis on commercial shipping lanes since mid—november. a houthi spokesman said they were targeting an american ship which was providing support to israel. mr blinken has also been in bahrain. live now to shashankjoshi, defence editor at the economist. thank you so much for being on the programme. we were listening to antony blinken a few moments ago saying there would be consequences if these attacks continued. he didn�t map out the consequences, but do you think warnings like that are going to be in anyway effective? well, it�s not the first warning. it has been one week since the us and i think about 13 of its allies including the uk published a joint

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Poll: Biden Ties with Trump, but Bests Haley, DeSantis

Joe Biden ties with Donald Trump but leads Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis in hypothetical general election match-ups, according to a poll.

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BBC News

still remains the same — more weapons, more prayers to ukraine, and it is all the weapons, air defence, first and foremost, and all the pieces of artillery and hopefully longer range missiles we can liberate more and provide more robust response to this horrendous attacks, and just clearly send a message to russia that they should stop. in an interview with the economist, your president, volodymyr zelensky, said the west has lost a sense of urgency. from your conversations in washington, what our lawmakers here telling you? well, everyone in here from president biden who made a statement after these attacks and administration but also congress on a very strong bipartisan basis do understand the need for ukraine to win and also the urgency, so we look forward to congress coming back after the vacations. as you know the package which contains a continuation of ukraine package as discussed

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