The shocks of 2020 have been great and small, disrupting the world economy, international relations and the daily lives of virtually everyone on the planet. Never before has the entire world economy contracted by 20 percent in a matter of weeks nor in the historic record of modern capitalism has there been a moment in which 95 percent of the world's economie ... Show More
Sep 2021
Surveillance: The Covid Economy With Tooze
Adam Tooze, Columbia University Professor and Author, "Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World Economy", discusses the Covid crisis and the stalled recovery amid the virus’s resurgence. Megan Greene, Harvard Kennedy School Senior Fellow, says she is not worried about runaway inflatio ... Show More
32m 41s
Dec 2021
Lockdown, rebound, lockdown
2021 has seen some extraordinary economic changes. First a global economic rebound, then a global supply chain crisis, then inflation of a kind not seen in western countries for decades. And finally millions of people deciding they didn't even want to go back to work after lockdo ... Show More
18m 24s
Jan 2021
Winners and losers in the post-pandemic world
Today’s guest says the new depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Author and economist, James Rickards, says “The virus didn’t cause the depression, it was our response to the virus.”
In his latest book, The New Great De ... Show More
39m 19s
