T r i n e t dot com slash podcast. Every week day we provide a fresh pactive on the events shaping your world. This week, america has been forced to import baby formula from switzerland. And there's far more to it than the usual story of gummed up supply chains and terk menistan's rulers have long had a pension for micro managing citizens lives.
China’s Communist Party leaders have painted themselves into a corner: they cannot be seen to put the capital into lockdown, but permitting covid to spread could be catastrophic. We look into the myriad reasons behind America’s sharp shortages of baby formula, and how to solve them. And why it is illegal for women to get a manicure in Turkmenistan.
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