The biggest risk is that this cold war eventually is going to end up into a hot war. These are things that the world has been through before. In the 70s, we had stagflation because of these two,. all shocking, 73 and 79. That ratios were very low as a shareholder GDP. So we did not have a debt crisis in Europe and the United States. After the global financial crisis, we had a debt problem... But we had a negative demand shock and we had a credit crunch. We could aggressively use monetary and fiscal policy. Today instead, we have negative supply shocks.
Nouriel Roubini, a.ka. "Dr. Doom," became famous for predicting the 2008 global financial crisis. Now, he is back with another grim forecast, in his new book, "MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them." He and Kara discuss the book, his prediction that we’re headed towards a stagflationary debt crisis, and US-China relations. Dr. Roubini also explains why cryptocurrency is fundamentally flawed (in fact, he thinks it’s less sophisticated than what the Flinstone’s had).
Before the interview, Kara and Nayeema discuss Sheryl Sandberg’s new report, “Women in the Workplace,” a joint venture by her organization, Lean In, and McKinsey & Company. And they talk about China’s president Xi Jinping — who is leaning into a third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.
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