The Upsides of a Realist Perspective on the World

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When I was growing up, we never worried about war among great nations or nuclear war. Never heard about climate change because of temperature barely above the Green Duster level. The last one had been in 1918, Spanish flu. In the West, we lived in liberal democracies through liberal respect to minorities. And now I see serious challenges to the 75 years of relative peace, prosperity, and progress since World War II.

Co-host Michael Chui talks with Nouriel Roubini. Roubini is professor emeritus of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University, and CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, a global macroeconomics consultancy. He covers topics including the following:

The “mother of all” debt crises and what to do about it
Likely future trends in the global balance sheet—the world’s economic health and wealth
The trajectory of globalization
Which “megathreat” worries him most

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