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Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Indicator Co-Host Darian Woods

Economy

Is the UK open for business?

6:08pm August 07, 2024

Globalization, as we once knew it, is dead ... well, that's according to the UK's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves.

Chancellor Reeves has run the UK Treasury since July 2024. She's facing an economic backdrop familiar to many countries: hollowed-out industrial towns; climate change; global wars and conflicts.

Today on the show: Our conversation with Chancellor Reeves on her visit this week to the US. What she thinks went wrong with globalization, and the new economic map she's coursing.

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What Bikes Tell Us About A Changing Global Economy

10:19am August 25, 2020

by Greg Rosalsky

COVID-19 and tariffs are reconfiguring trade. And companies are reevaluating how and where their products get made.

NPR food editor Rhitu Chatterjee makes khichuri.

'Khichuri': An Ancient Indian Comfort Dish With A Global Influence

12:07pm July 20, 2017

by Rhitu Chatterjee

Also called khichri, the dish goes back centuries and is universally loved across South Asia. It is also considered the ancestor of the British kedgeree and Egyptian koshary.

A woman is pepper-sprayed by police after she climbed onto an armored vehicle on the first day of the Group of 20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.

Anti-Globalization Protests Spark Violence In Hamburg For Second Day

5:17pm July 07, 2017

by Scott Neuman

Activists continued protests in the German city as the summit of the world's major economic powers got underway.

President Trump addresses a crowd during the debut of the new Dreamliner 787 at Boeing's South Carolina facilities on Feb. 17 in North Charleston. Trump uses Boeing as an example of his "America First" policies, but the plane parts come from all over.

Trump's 'America First' Agenda Marks Sharp Break In U.S. Economic Policy

12:41pm February 28, 2017

by Scott Horsley

President Trump's plans, a rebuke of the prevailing push toward globalization, may overlook what's under the hood when it comes to manufacturing.

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World News

Radio 101: Changing My Mind About Globalization

9:27pm September 16, 2016

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Radio 101 is WFDD's education program for high school students. Esraa Omar's obsession with Korean TV dramas sparked a change in her opinons on globalization.

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Primary regions of diversity of major agricultural crops worldwide.

A Map Of Where Your Food Originated May Surprise You

3:18pm June 13, 2016

by Jeremy Cherfas

A new study reveals the full extent of globalization in our food supply. More than two-thirds of the crops that underpin national diets originally came from somewhere else — often far away.

The Bank of England in London in a photograph taken in March. The central bank inadvertently revealed that it was planning for a possible withdrawal of the U.K. from the European Union.

Email Slip Reportedly Reveals United Kingdom Plan For Possible EU Exit

4:33pm May 23, 2015

by Scott Neuman

In the communication that The Guardian says it received accidentally from the Bank of England, officials outlined details of the plan known as "Operation Bookend."