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Update: Suez Canal blockage causes backlog in the Red Sea

The Ever Given container ship has been stuck since Tuesday despite efforts to move it.

The Ever Given container ship has been stuck since Tuesday despite efforts to move it, and a backlog of ships waiting to pass through it continues to grow. Rose George travelled along the Suez Canal when researching her 2013 book 'Ninety Percent of Everything' and tells us more about the world of container shipping.
We hear from Dorothy Brown, a law professor at Emory University, whose book 'The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans β€” And How We Can Fix It' explains how America's tax system is weighted towards white people.
And Chris Low of FTN Financial in New York explains why the Suez blockage is having little effect on oil prices.

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