The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf (Part 2)

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

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2025 is set to be a seismic year for the global economy. Donald Trump will return to the White House with an ‘America First’ agenda that threatens to dismantle global trade. Wars in Ukraine and Gaza could continue to escalate and cause turmoil in diplomacy. And the race to develop AI will accelerate as China and the US battle it out for technological supremacy. Who better to make sense of these unsettling and fast-changing times than Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times? Widely regarded as one of the world’s most influential writers on the global economy and a multi-award-winning financial journalist, Wolf has been chronicling and analysing geopolitical and economic upheaval for nearly 40 years. He has written five bestselling books. His latest, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, maps out the implications of globalisation, technological development and the impact of democratic decline on the global economy. Wolf joined us onstage for the this installment of the Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook as he discussed what we can expect from 2025 and beyond in conversation with BBC News presenter and Royal Correspondent Jonny Dymond. This recording is part of The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook series of events made in partnership with Guinness Global Investors, an independent British fund manager that helps both individuals and institutions harness the future drivers of growth to achieve their investment goals. To find out more visit: https://www.guinnessgi.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.0	Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm head of programming Connor Boyle. Today's episode is part two of our recent live event in London's Smith Square Hall with Martin Wolfe
1:11.6	as part of our Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook series in partnership with Guinness Global Investors.
1:17.6	Wolf was joined in conversation by journalist and broadcaster Johnny Diamond to discuss issues
1:23.6	ranging from Trump's tariff threats to the great AI race, and of course answering all of your
1:28.6	audience questions about the economy in the year ahead. So without further ado, let's rejoin
1:34.0	the conversation now. Now the one lever, the one lever, I think the problem is we've got to the situation that I'm not completely convinced there is one lever
1:49.0	because we are in a, well I think of as a structural slump and the, it's not clear what,
1:58.0	it's clear there are things we could do but they
2:02.8	would take really quite a long time to work and they are going to be really quite
2:11.0	unpopular but I suppose that if I were going to be really pushed what what is the one thing they could do, which
2:20.3	would be relatively easy and might be relatively quick? I'm inclined to agree with the government,
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