Trump Is a Degrowther

What else do you call a strategy designed to raise prices and lower productivity?

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“The Fed, ECB, Wall Street, the City say, yeah, we’re going to have a soft landing. In US monetary history for the last 60 years, we’ve never had an episode where inflation is above 5 [per cent] — today it’s 7.1 — and unemployment is below 5 [per cent] — and right now it’s 3.7 — that when you raise rates to fight inflation, you get a soft landing. You always get a hard landing.”

- Nouriel Roubini

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Nouriel Roubini: ‘I hope I didn’t depress you too much’

The famously gloomy economist has turned up the dial on dark predictions for 2023 and beyond, but is upbeat about technology and the meaning of life

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