Mark Carney's Blunt Warnings on Climate Change and Brexit

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In this chapter, they discuss Mark Carney, the former head of the Bank of England, and his warnings about the financial risks of climate change and Brexit. Carney gained international recognition for being the first non-Briton to lead the Bank of England and for his straightforward alerts about the consequences of leaving the EU. They mention lower growth, higher prices, and increased unemployment as the potential outcomes of Brexit, which Carney referred to as the 'elephant in the room.'

China’s flip-flopping on video-game regulation reveals a messy message: leaders want to encourage “hard tech” such as chips and AI over the consumer kind—without sparking another costly crackdown. We ask Mark Carney, a former central-bank governor, whether he has ambitions to lead Canada (09:16). And why so many social-media types want to share their diaries online (18:19).

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