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A succession of British ministers has quit the cabinet of UK Prime Minister Theresa May, in the wake of a draft EU withdrawal agreement. The Financial Times' George Parker joins the show to help untangle where things go from here.
The US government is moving to tighten regulations on vaping products, as well as outright ban menthol cigarettes. Sheila Kaplan writes about health and social affairs for the New York Times and explains how clamping down on menthol will have a disproportionate effect on African-Americans.
With the unemployment rate at its lowest for almost half a century, many US employers are struggling to attract the workers they need. The 大象传媒鈥檚 Kim Gittleson reports from New York on how this is impacting holiday retail.
And finally, the Japanese minister for cybersecurity, Yoshitaka Sakurada, admitted recently that he has never used a computer. In light of this extreme example, we鈥檙e asking just how much knowledge a government minister needs to have in the area they administer.
All through the show we鈥檒l be joined from Hong Kong by Jodi Schneider, Senior International Editor at Bloomberg, and Peter Morici, Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, in Maryland.