I don't know if it has any effect on anybody that is going to own Twitter. But literally, I mean, trying to defend his own financial interest in China and say that Taiwan should be like on Kong is just reckless. You never know. The guy has a huge, huge ego. Maybe now things I'm not just the best entrepreneur in the country, but I'm also the best political mind, the best geopolitical mind. And he can use in the future that bully pulpit for other purposes. Yeah. He can't run for president because he wasn't born here. That works so well. Okay. We'll take a quick break and we come back with an excerpt from your
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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