Eric Lipton
speaker
759 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5 Aug
Eric Lipton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And we're not the Middle East.
where you're run by the royal family, and the royal family is both the government and the profit-making.
The royal families, they own the oil company, they own everything, they own the economy, and they are also the decision-makers, and there's a blending of those roles, which is that's the way it works in the Middle East, in the sovereign world, but that's not the way it works in the United States.
We've had a tradition where the people that run the government
They disassociate themselves from the private sector interests.
They put their holdings in blind trust.
And they attempt to avoid conflicts of interest.
But the Trump family has chosen to act differently.
And there are no formal federal prohibitions on doing what they're doing.
But it's raising a lot of questions.
And it's also keeping us quite busy as reporters because we're determined to examine each one of these relationships, to document it, to bring the facts out, to make it transparent.
And so people can at least know about what's happening.
Well, it seems like everything is being called a recession indicator these days.
Or the new Apple Neo book.
I've lost track.
There is only one way to know if these are actual economic warning signs, though.
Listen to The Indicator from Planet Money on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Yeah.
So there was an agreement, which had been years in the making, to allow Saudi Arabia to have access to civilian nuclear technology from the United States to allow them to build nuclear power plants.
And it's a way of diversifying their economy and also to start to move away from fossil fuels, as many of the Middle Eastern governments are trying to – they've been so dependent on fossil fuel wealth.
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