Gillian Tett | Wartime Economy: The Greatest Financial & Political Crisis Since World War II
Hidden Forces
Demetri Kofinas
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 130 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Gillian Tett, chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large of the Financial Times about America's new "wartime economy" and the unspoken consequences of the most radical financial and political crisis since World War II.
Demetri starts the conversation by asking Gillian what it's like to run the largest financial newspaper in the world during the greatest economic and political crisis in three generations. The two discuss the latest central bank policy actions, fiscal stimulus, and a series of other timely topics ranging from distressed corporates, emerging markets, dollar funding, and much, much more.
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| 0:24.9 | amazing community. And with that, please enjoy this week's episode. And the What's up everybody? My guest on this episode of Hidden Forces is Jillian Ted, chair of the editorial board and editor |
| 0:55.9 | at large of the Financial Times. |
| 0:58.8 | She writes weekly columns covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues and she is here to speak |
| 1:06.8 | with us today. |
| 1:07.8 | Jillian, welcome back to Hidden Forces. |
| 1:11.2 | Great to be on the show at this incredibly intense moment. |
| 1:16.2 | So that's actually something I wanted to ask you about because you joined the Financial Times |
| 1:22.4 | in the early 90s, I believe, as a correspondent for the former |
| 1:27.4 | Soviet Union in Europe. |
| 1:28.9 | You were stationed in Tokyo during the bursting of the dot-com bubble and the 9-11 attacks and you covered Wall Street of course leading up to and through the crisis which we talked about in our last episode together. |
| 1:44.0 | And now you find yourself as the editor at large |
| 1:48.4 | of what is effectively the largest English |
| 1:51.0 | language financial newspaper in the world. |
| 1:54.0 | What is it like to work at the Financial Times in your capacity during a time like this? |
| 2:01.0 | Well, it's moments like this and make me realize why journalism is such a responsibility |
| 2:09.7 | and a privilege and a passion of mine because essentially you know we're paid to tell people about other people and try and illuminate how the world's working or often not working and doing that in quiet times and peace times is always very important |
| 2:26.5 | as part of the civic duty but doing it in times of drama of war, medical war of the sort we got now or financial war of the sort that I've seen before |
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