August, 18 2019: Is the world ready for a recession? Fareed has an all-star panel to discuss.

Fareed Zakaria GPS

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🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's been 10 years since the last global financial crisis. Is the next one around the corner? Is the world prepared to handle it? Fareed delves into the possibilities with Rana Foroohar, Richard Haass, and Ed Luce. And, the climate crisis has been dealt by the rich, and felt by the poor. Mary Robinson tells Fareed how this wrong can be righted. Also, Tara Westover (author of the best-seller "Educated") on her journey from no formal schooling to a PhD from Cambridge. GUESTS: Rana Foroohar, Edward Luce, Richard Haass, Mary Robinson, Tara Westover

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0:00.0	This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and
0:07.8	around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria.
0:11.0	We'll start today's show with fears of a global recession. The US and China are in a trade
0:18.0	war and it's been more than 10 years since the last recession ended. This week markets
0:24.1	will wrap on me. Do we need to buckle up? I have a great panel to discuss. And the climate
0:32.8	crisis. The world's wealthy are disproportionately responsible for it while the planets were
0:40.7	suffer the most. Ireland's former president will tell me how to turn this climate injustice
0:49.3	into justice. Then from the mountains of Idaho to the hallowed halls of Cambridge University.
0:57.4	How did author Tara Wester go from a family that forbade education to a PhD from one of the
1:05.7	world's great universities? She will tell me her amazing story.
1:13.2	But first, here's my take. The Trump administration has an emerging deal with the Taliban.
1:19.7	And it has the potential to bring greater stability to Afghanistan after an 18-year
1:25.3	inconclusive war in that country. Or it could reignite the Afghan Civil War, emboldening
1:32.4	terrorist groups and plunging the nation into another decade of turmoil which might then force
1:37.7	the United States to return to the battlefield in large numbers. That is after all what happened
1:43.3	after the US would root too quickly from Iraq in 2011. It all depends on how it is handled from now.
1:51.3	The key must be a political settlement between the Taliban and the Afghan government
1:57.1	and not the rapid withdrawal of US troops. President Trump deserves some credit for having
2:03.7	authorized the negotiations in Doha between a special envoy, Zalme Khaliuzad and the Taliban.
2:10.0	The next step is to broaden the talks to involve the Afghan government itself.
2:14.5	The end result would be a national unity government that includes both the current Afghan
2:19.6	government and the Taliban. But the crucial issue for Washington is to ensure that it does not
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