Tariff Special: The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Helen Thompson (Part One)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti and I'm joined today by head of programming Connor Boyle. Connor, what can we expect from today's episode? Well today, Mia, we've got tariffs, tariffs, and more tariffs. I suppose the biggest thing that's happened in the economy in the last few months has been um the return of Donald Trump to the White House and his desire to, as he sees it, stop the rest of the world exploiting the United States in terms of trade policy.

So I know You were originally in touch with uh Helen Thompson. We're gonna do an energy special about global energy, but I suppose we kinda, if we're gonna do an economic outlook, kinda has to be about tariffs. Yeah, absolutely. So this event was actually part of our economic outlook series, which is in partnership with Guinness Global Investors, but we thought

Like Connor said, for this instalment, we were speaking to the political economist Helen Thompson, and it seemed like we could speak about nothing else. For this installment of the series, you know, Helen is an expert on kind of globalization. Like you said as well, she is really into kind of the political economy of energy. And she's also the author of this book called Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century. So we thought it was great to have someone who had that kind of

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