Riot-geared: the tensions behind Frances unrest

Published: July 3, 2023, 9:51 a.m.

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The killing of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the disquiet, and what it means for a president squeezed on both political sides. In high-inflation times, rising wages worry economists\\u2014\\u201cwage-price spirals\\u201d are a textbook bogeyman. But perhaps the risk is overblown (10:34). And the researchers making burgers from extinct animals (18:22). 


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