Ones and Tooze Folgen

This week on the show, Adam and Cameron discuss the economy of South Africa, which has come a long way since the end of apartheid in 1990. South Africa is now number 36 on the list of countries ranked according to GDP. But deep economic inequalities persist, as a legacy of the apartheid era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hosts Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze talk about Berlin, Cam’s home town, on this week’s episode. They grapple with the recent mayoral election and what it says about the economy there.  Before that, Cam and Adam dig into climate change news. According to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), it seems increasingly unlikely the world will be able to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Adam and Cam discuss what countries should be doing with this new information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's been 20 years since the U.S. invaded Iraq and the toll continues to mount. Hundreds of thousands died in the fighting and millions were displaced, when you count the ancillary wars that rippled across the region. Adam and Cameron focus their discussion this week on Iraq's economy, which was devastated by the war and has never fully recovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices