Rapid Response: How global markets are reacting to Russia's war on Ukraine, w/Sara Menker, CEO of Gro Intelligence
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 12 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine presents a new level of disruption to an already fragile global trade system. Sara Menker, the CEO of Gro Intelligence, a data research firm with deep insights on global supply and demand, joins Rapid Response for the second time to discuss these disruptions. While her biggest focus is agriculture, Sara’s insights provide a window into how things are shifting across all parts of the economy. She also discusses what we need to understand about Russia’s trade with China and the largely overlooked impacts in the Middle East.
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| 1:03.8 | war started, it was adding fuel to a fire. We're entering this phase in an even more fragile state |
| 1:11.7 | as a world than we entered COVID in 2020. This is not a local problem for just Russia and Ukraine. |
| 1:19.3 | It all results in extreme, extreme, unprecedented price moves and we're seeing unreal disconnections. |
| 1:28.0 | Three, four years ago, the understanding that we had of the world on a real-time basis was |
| 1:33.1 | significantly worse. It gives me hope because we can answer questions much faster than ever before. |
| 1:42.7 | That's Sarah Manker, CEO of Grow Intelligence, a data research firm with deep insights on |
| 1:48.0 | global supply and demand. Sarah was a guest on this show early on in the pandemic when fears |
| 1:53.4 | about food shortages and other disruptions were acute. I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast |
| 1:59.3 | Company, founder of the Flux Group and host of Masters of Scale Rapid Response. I wanted to talk |
| 2:04.8 | to Sarah again because with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we face a new kind of disruption and |
| 2:10.0 | new risks. Global markets, Sarah explains, are not just in turmoil this time around. They're also |
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