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In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi sold at auction for $450 million. Meanwhile, a poster reprint would have set you back $10. Why are a small number of super-wealthy buyers willing to pay such huge sums for the right pieces? It’s a question that is becoming more widely relevant, as new art investment funds seek to open this murky and unregulated market up to the broader public. So how much does the value of your investment depend on the whims of a handful of galleries and collectors? And how can you even be sure what you’re buying is authentic?

Hosts: Tom Lee-Devlin, Alice Fulwood, and Mike Bird. Guests: Noah Horowitz, CEO of the Art Basel international art fair; Lars Nittve, investment committee chair at Arte Collectum; Orlando Whitfield, an art dealer, author, and former friend of Inigo Philbrick, who committed the biggest art fraud in history; and The Economist’s Jon Fasman.

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Boeing’s business is a mess, following two plane crashes in 2018-19 and a string of safety scares. The aerospace manufacturer has not received a single 737 Max order in two months. The FAA has imposed a production go-slow on safety grounds. The share price is down 60%. And the departing CEO Dave Calhoun was hauled before Congress earlier this week to apologise for the 346 deaths he acknowledged the company was responsible for. What can Mr Calhoun’s eventual successor do to bring Boeing out of its nosedive?

Hosts: Alice Fulwood, Tom Lee-Devlin, and Mike Bird. Guests: Ed Pierson, founder of the Foundation for Aviation Safety; Peter Robison, author of “Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing”; Ron Epstein, an aerospace and defence analyst at Bank of America; and The Economist’s Simon Wright.

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China’s model for economic development holds serious appeal for countries looking for an alternative to the Washington consensus of economic and political liberalisation. But what exactly is the “China Model”? And should America and its allies be worried about China’s growing confidence in exporting it?

Hosts: Mike Bird and Tom Lee-Devlin. Guests: Elizabeth Economy, Hargrove senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; and Yasheng Huang, Professor of Global Economic and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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More than 100,000 tracks are added to Spotify every day. A growing share of them are now generated by AI. That sounds like bad news for artists, as well as the businesses that rely on them. So what does the music industry look like in the age of AI?

Hosts: Tom Lee-Devlin, Alice Fulwood and Mike Bird. Guests: Andy Mooney, CEO of Fender and Michael Nash, chief digital officer at Universal Music Group

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Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyeing a third term atop the world’s biggest democracy. 
A tea-seller’s son, Mr Modi began life an outsider and the man behind the political phenomenon remains hard to fathom. India has become an economic powerhouse during his ten years in charge. But he’s also the frontman for a chauvinistic Hindu nationalist dogma. 
Can Mr Modi continue to balance both parts of his agenda and finish the job of turning India into a superpower? The Economist’s Avantika Chilkoti finds out what makes him tick. 
Launching June 2024.
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Across the developed world, birth rates are tumbling. That poses a fiscal threat: a smaller working-age population will struggle to fund pensions and health care for a growing number of old folk. In the face of a sudden shortfall of babies, governments face a problem: how do you incentivise people to have more kids?
Hosts: Mike Bird, Alice Fulwood and Tom Lee-Devlin. Guests: anthropologist Ayo Wahlberg and The Economist’s Cerian Richmond Jones.

To hear more on this topic, listen to our Drum Tower podcast on why China’s one-child policy is still having an impact on the country’s birth rate: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2024/04/30/why-the-one-child-policy-still-affects-chinas-birth-rate

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