by Alan Robert | Mar 22, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
In this episode, we will be discussing an article published on March 16th in the Economist Magazine, titled “Is the global investment boom turning to bust?” The article describes how companies worldwide are scaling back their investments due to various...
by Alan Robert | Mar 7, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
In this episode, we will be discussing an article recently published in The New York Times titled “Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?” Listen again: Is the Entire Economy Gentrifying?” While gentrification (gentrifying) is often used in the context of...
by Alan Robert | Feb 27, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
Last week’s podcast covered the controversy surrounding the French government’s plan to raise the statutory retirement age. In today’s vocabulary lesson, we will discuss the challenges that China is facing due to its shrinking population. In a recent...
by Alan Robert | Feb 22, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
Today, we are going to talk about retirement age. Listen to this headline, published on February 11, 2023: France braces for protests as Macron pushes forward with pension reform. Again: France braces for protests as Macron pushes forward with pension reform....
by Alan Robert | Feb 7, 2023 | Podcast Lessons
Today, we’ll be discussing the trend of companies transferring their operations to nearby countries, because of geopolitical reasons, or because of recent disruptions in the global supply chain, like the shipping container crisis, and problems posed by Covid....