The Times podcast: Masters of Disasters: Broken records!
On this episode of the Times podcast, Times reporter Michael Sisak sits down with me for a wide-ranging discussion of the global economic and demographic forces behind the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. Read more here.
From The Times: “The global economy and its potential collapse are on full public and media display for the first time under the Trump administration. The American public is starting to realize that the global system that has been built since World War II is broken, and that the system itself is a fraud. The American economy and financial system are too big to fail. The people who control it can survive its decline, and they are prepared to do whatever it takes to protect their power. But the people who work in the industry that they set up to protect their position are getting ready to make their careers as financial predators, and are planning to make America a graveyard for itself.
The public is beginning to see the way this economy has been run, and what it needs to do to stay afloat.”
On this episode of the Times podcast, Times reporter Michael Sisak sits down with me for a wide-ranging discussion of the global economic and demographic forces behind the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. Read more here.
We’ve all heard this phrase, but only a handful of economists would come and speak at a recent conference on the global economy. The event was called by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Global Economic Challenges and Opportunities (GECO) Committee, made up of Federal Reserve Board governors, senior staff from the Federal Reserve banks, and other economists. It was hosted by Chicago Fed president Charles Evans of the Bank of Chicago and attended by dozens of Chicago Fed researchers.
The goal of that conference was to bring together some of the leading thinkers on the global economy to talk about the current economic problems and ways to address them.
Here’s the first panel discussion, which began after lunch on
