The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Martin Wolf (Part 1)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm head of programming, Connor Boyle. Today's episode is part one of our recent live event in London Smith Square Hall with Martin Wolf. It was the first event of 2025 for our Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook series in partnership with Guinness Global Investors. Wolf was joined in conversation by journalist and broadcaster Johnny Diamond to discuss issues ranging from Trump's tariffs, deep seek versus chat GPT. and the UK's prospects for economic growth in the coming year. If you're an Intelligence Squared member, you can get access to the full conversation right now.

Just go to intelligence square.com slash membership to subscribe. Now let's go to the episode. Thank you, thank you very much, and good evening and welcome to this intelligence squared economic outlook in partnership with Guinness Global Investors. Um I'm Johnny Diamond and I'm delighted to introduce our guest tonight it is of course Martin Wolf. If you're expecting someone else to come to the wrong venue. But Martin is of course the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. In two thousand he was awarded the CBE for services to financial journalism. In twenty nineteen he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Lerb Awards.

And his books include The Shifts and the Shocks, Why Globalization Works, and most recently The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. And I can recommend the latter in particular, not just for the sort of pungency of the ideas, but for the beautiful writing within. as well. Thank you again for joining us. It's a real pleasure to be doing this first economic outlook of the year. Let us start with the global economy such as anything can be described as sort of one economy. Uh in twenty twenty five.

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