This is the RT Coach podcast with Severin Swanson coming to you this week with a special edition on the economy.

This episode is recorded on April 10, 2022 via Zoom.

You're listening to Severin Swanson and the RT Coach podcast where we explore excellence in the art and science of executive coaching.

Each year executives look at the economy in a way that they can understand how to grow, how to trim, how to size their business.

And they're looking at the data, there are a variety of sources to look at.

On an annual basis for the peer groups that I have coached and also on a quarterly I have done quarterly economic updates to try to help us understand where the economy is going today.

And this quarter is no different.

Now what is different about this time is the time that we're in and so I recently updated a deck.

I returned from New York City over the weekend where I spent time with peer groups and CEO groups talking about the economy, about what we're seeing today and what we're like to experience in the future.

And as is my practice I updated a deck.

So I'd like to share some of those learnings from you so the more important points as well as to talk about the economy because I do believe that there is elevated geopolitical risk that we have now, flowering inflation.

And we've got a lot of commotion but that commotion can also create growth opportunity.

So let's go ahead and get started with the presentation on economic outlook and trends, international political economy, perspective on geopolitical risk, flowering inflation, growth opportunity amid commotion.

This particular presentation is updated with data through the 4th of April 2022 and reflects a 2012-2020 update from E-Praxis.

I start this presentation off with a disclaimer and that is the economic content in the presentation is provided for educational purposes only.

The opinions expressed are those of the author only, mainly mine. Individuals and organizations are strongly encouraged to consult with your own business, financial, and tax advisors before implementing any actions for your own personal and business purposes.

Years ago I had the opportunity of studying graduate economics at Keynes College Cambridge.

Keynes is known as being a location for a number of economists but one of our most famous ones was John Maynard Keynes.

Well I was a graduate student there, had an opportunity to actually have some of his books from his library in my room and I thought at both pointy-ent and fun to actually be there where so much of history has been made.

Now while I was learning economics I learned a special variant of economics and also a concept that was important for us today.

So much of the economy as it is forecast is looking at backwardly looking data and therefore it appears that economists are always catching up.

One of the things that we tried to focus on there in Cambridge was the focus of how could we look at green shoots of growth and browning leaves of decay to help us get a forward direction on where the economy was headed.

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