The visit of America’s speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has Chinese tempers flaring. We ask what the trip suggests about <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/08/02/nancy-pelosis-trip-to-taiwan-highlights-americas-incoherent-strategy?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American policy</a> and what it means for Taiwan. Crowdfunding is making a <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2022/07/27/how-crowdfunding-is-shaping-the-war-in-ukraine?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">real difference</a> in the war in Ukraine—but its effects vary between the two sides. And a close listen to a young pianist’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/07/21/the-wonder-of-lim-yun-chans-performance-of-rach-3?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">prizewinning</a> Rachmaninoff-concerto performance.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <hr> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Nancy meeting you here: a tetchy Taiwan trip

LC.12_Smoke_Everything Eaten in One Year

The startling picture of how China’s revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.

The future of finance – the way Wall Street operates and how individuals manage their money - is on the verge of upheaval. And the force underlying the change comes from China, where finance and technology are being merged into a system with consequences that resonate far beyond China’s border. The changes of this global revolution in finance and technology - fintech - will be as powerful as those wrought in social media, retailing and advertising by giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, which have overturned how we shop and communicate.

China reinvented money with lightning speed, transforming a backward, antiquated cash-based finance system into one centered on super-apps created by technology giants Alibaba and Tencent. More powerful than anything available outside of China, they allow their billion users to pay, borrow, invest, buy goods and services, travel, chat (and far more) all fused together in one mobile phone application. Think Facebook, Google, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, Amazon, J.P. Morgan Chase all rolled into one app.

We in the West need to understand China’s cashless revolution for reasons ranging from the macroeconomic to issues of personal liberty: The cutting edge of finance is now in China, forcing major financial firms in the United States and the West to figure out how not to be left behind.. China’s cashless revolution is also a harbinger of our future if we let the genie out of the bottle and allow big tech to become big finance. As money goes digital and central banks around the world consider launching digital currencies, we may have both immense convenience and a frightening concentration of power that could violate our privacy, stifle competition, increase financial risk, and give big firms or the government more control over our financial lives. And, once this genie is out of the bottle, the struggle to put it back in may be impossible.

Available October 4, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from PublicAffairs. 

Download: 
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-cashless-revolution/id1608917488
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781668610688-the-cashless-revolution
https://www.downpour.com/the-cashless-revolution
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/the-cashless-revolution-1
https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/cashless-revolution-chinas-reinvention-of-money-and-the-end-of-americas-domination-of-finance-and-technology/573743
https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/the-cashless-revolution.aspx
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Cashless-Revolution-Audiobook/B0B2F5XRVD?qid=1663292474&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=ESN6NEYKT146F0598B5W
https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Martin_Chorzempa_The_Cashless_Revolution?id=AQAAAECCPll-yM
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cashless-revolution-martin-chorzempa/1141093492?ean=2940178448489
https://www.estories.com/audiobook/567938/Martin-Chorzempa/The-Cashless-Revolution

Check out our other great titles and more at:
http://www.hachetteaudio.com	

Follow us at:
twitter.com/HachetteAudio
www.tumblr.com/blog/hachetteaudio
www.facebook.com/HachetteAudio

The Cashless Revolution by Martin Chorzempa Read by Tommy Kang - Audiobook Excerpt

New York Times bestselling author and conservative U.S. Senator Tom Cotton exposes the progressive left’s decades-long plot to sabotage American power, culminating in a behind-the-scenes look at the dangerous failures of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden—and explains what we must do to recover America’s strength.

If it seems to you that Barack Obama and Joe Biden have weakened America and emboldened our enemies, you’re not alone. But Senator Cotton explains that their failures aren’t just incompetence or bad luck—it’s decline by design. 
 
Only the Strong reveals the untold inside story of how progressive ideologues and Democratic politicians abandoned the American tradition of strength, pride, and honor. From the beginning, early progressives like Woodrow Wilson repudiated our Founding in favor of globalist fantasies abroad and big government at home. By Vietnam, leftists had begun to blame America first for the world’s problems—just as Barack Obama did for eight years as he apologized and sought to atone for America’s supposed sins. Along the way, Democrats have sold out America’s sovereignty and hollowed out our military to restrain American power. Even when Democrats have acted tough, it usually ends in disaster, from John Kennedy’s debacle at the Bay of Pigs to Bill Clinton’s fiasco in Mogadishu to Joe Biden’s humiliating retreat from Afghanistan.
 
While offering a timely warning of the dangers ahead and new stories from Senator Cotton’s service in the Senate and the Army, Only the Strong also provides a formidable and urgent roadmap to restore American strength before it’s too late. Because only the strong can survive in a dangerous world and only the strong can preserve their freedom.

Available November 1, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Twelve. 

Download: 
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/only-the-strong/id1623198927
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781668618561-only-the-strong
https://www.downpour.com/only-the-strong-710885
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/only-the-strong-7
https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/only-the-strong-reversing-the-lefts-plot-to-sabotage-american-power/591256
https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/only-the-strong-1.aspx
https://www.audible.com/pd/Only-the-Strong-Audiobook/B0B192NRR8?qid=1665159178&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=QPWKW4KXF19395WNWW73
https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Tom_Cotton_Only_the_Strong?id=AQAAAED8J0BnrM
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/only-the-strong-tom-cotton/1141450141?ean=2940175681124
https://www.estories.com/audiobook/597995/Tom-Cotton/Only-the-Strong

Check out our other great titles and more at:
http://www.hachetteaudio.com	

Follow us at:
twitter.com/HachetteAudio
www.tumblr.com/blog/hachetteaudio
www.facebook.com/HachetteAudio

Only the Strong by Tom Cotton Read by Tony Messano, Tom Cotton - Audiobook Excerpt

Listen to an excerpt of Sarah Levy's DRINKING GAMES, read by the author.

Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived— and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.

On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself.

Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking. It’s an examination of what our short-term choices about alcohol do to our long-term selves and how they challenge our ability to be vulnerable enough to discover what we really want in life.

Candid and dynamic, this book speaks to the all-consuming cycle of working hard, playing harder, and trying to look perfect while you’re at it. Sarah takes us by the hand through her personal journey with blackouts, dating, relationships, wellness culture, startups, social media, friendship, and self-discovery.

In this intimate and darkly funny memoir, she stumbles through her twenties, explores the impact alcohol has on relationships and identity, and shows us how life’s messiest moments can end up being the most profound.

Buy the audiobook

Drinking Games by Sarah Levy, audiobook excerpt

The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/10/20/who-will-be-britains-next-leader?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">staying power</a> to that of a lettuce captured global imaginations. Will the next prime minister have a longer shelf-life? We ask why it has proven so tricky to get the Middle East’s considerable <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/10/13/middle-eastern-countries-are-sitting-on-an-ocean-of-natural-gas?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">natural-gas resources</a> to market. And the murder of <a href="https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/10/20/yurii-kerpatenko-refused-to-bow-to-russian-orders?utm_campaign=a.io&amp;utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&amp;utm_source=theintelligence&amp;utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&amp;utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yurii Kerpatenko</a>, a conductor from Kherson who refused to bow to Russian orders.For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here <a href="http://www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer</a> <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

No wilt to go on: let us bid Truss goodbye

Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s prime minister today, making him the third in the past seven weeks. Our correspondent explains who he is, and analyses his road ahead. In Mexico there are growing concerns over the army’s increasing wealth and power. And why “The Stepford Wives,” a novel published 50 years ago, remains relevant and influential today. <hr> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Third time’s the charm? Britain’s new prime minister

An honest reckoning with the war on terror, masculinity, and the violence of American hegemony abroad, at home, and on the psyche, from a veteran whose convictions came undone

When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the “war on terror” was necessary to national security. He also subscribed to a strict code of manhood that military service conjured and perpetuated. Then he began to train and his worldview shattered. Honorably discharged five years later, Rubin returned to the United States with none of his beliefs, about himself or his country, intact. 

In Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body, Rubin narrates his own undoing, the profound disillusionment that took hold of him on bases in the U.S. and Afghanistan. He both examines his own failings as a participant in a prescribed masculinity and the failings of American empire, examining the racialized and class hierarchies and culture of conquest that constitute the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The result is a searing analysis and the story of one man’s personal and political conversion, told in beautiful prose by an essayist, historian, and veteran transformed. 

Available November 1, 2022 from Hachette Audio as a digital download, and in Print and Ebook from Bold Type Books. 

Download: 
https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-body/id1613361074
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781668611012-pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-body
https://www.downpour.com/catalog/product/view/id/731809/s/pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-body/
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-body
https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-body-a-marines-unbecoming/584128
https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-body.aspx
https://www.audible.com/pd/Pain-Is-Weakness-Leaving-the-Body-Audiobook/B0B2HZVLDL?qid=1666988710&sr=1-1&ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&pf_rd_p=83218cca-c308-412f-bfcf-90198b687a2f&pf_rd_r=JAQJGM6FC0Z03Z8T0KXE
https://play.google.com/store/audiobooks/details/Lyle_Jeremy_Rubin_Pain_Is_Weakness_Leaving_the_Bod?id=AQAAAEBC2l2aDM
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pain-is-weakness-leaving-the-body-lyle-jeremy-rubin/1141118002?ean=2940175512763
https://www.estories.com/audiobook/574431/Lyle-Jeremy-Rubin/Pain-Is-Weakness-Leaving-the-Body

Check out our other great titles and more at:
http://www.hachetteaudio.com	

Follow us at:
twitter.com/HachetteAudio
www.tumblr.com/blog/hachetteaudio
www.facebook.com/HachetteAudio

Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body by Lyle Jeremy Rubin Read by Garrett Brown, Author - Audio Excerpt

Aux origines d’ARTE, il y eut la SEPT, Société d'Édition de Programmes de Télévision à vocation culturelle et européenne. Ce premier épisode raconte la préhistoire de la chaîne, faite d’orages solaires et de satellites qui se détraquent, d’émissions emblématiques et d’habillages loufoques. On va vous parler d'un temps que les moins de 30 ans peuvent ne pas connaître, l'époque des K7 Betacam et des VHS PAL SECAM.

Avec la participation de Franck Evin, Elisabetta Zampa, Eglantine Dupuy, Claire Doutriaux, Elena Zenone.

Mon ARTE - 30 ans d’aventures racontés par ses salarié.es
A travers les témoignages des salarié.e.s, cette série en 5 épisodes invite à plonger dans les 30 ans de la chaîne culturelle ARTE. Une odyssée parfois cosmique, souvent comique, faite d’orages solaires et de disquettes informatiques, d’entente franco-allemande et de réunions Teams, de pizza et d’Internet, de hard-rock et de sang de chèvre. Un podcast d'entreprise garanti sans mot du directeur ni de la DRH, qui relate en toute liberté les petits ratés et les grands succès de l’aventure d’ARTE.

Enregistrement : mai-juin 22 - Prises de son, montage, réalisation : Thomas Guillaud-Bataille - Mise en ondes, musique originale et mix : Samuel Hirsch - Production : ARTE Radio, ARTE France

Mon ARTE (1/5)

Gifted children stand trial for summertime crimes.

Subscribe in iTunes (www.bit.ly/ts_itunes) or check out www.truestorytime.org.

Subscribe in iTunes

Wheel of Misfortune

Will Grant takes a ride in Cuba to discover how people get around and whether the thaw in relations with the United States will make any difference to their lives. Published on August 13, 2015.

Cuba on the Move

Grammy-winning audiobook publisher. Authors include James Patterson, David Baldacci, and Michael Connelly. Earbuds encouraged. Follow us on Twitter at @HachetteAudio.