2018: Top Risks

An episode of the In the Balance podcast, hosted by BBC World Service, titled "2018: Top Risks" was published on January 6, 2018 and runs 26 minutes.

January 6, 2018 ·26m · In the Balance

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What are the biggest risks to the global economy in 2018? Ed Butler is joined by some of the world's leading economists and political scientists to ask the key questions that will affect us all in the year ahead. Ed hears from Ian Bremmer, American political scientist and the President and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research firm; Megan Greene, Chief Economist at Manulife and John Hancock Asset Management in the USA and Guntram Wolf, Director of Bruegel, a leading European think tank, focussing on economics and politics. Comedian Colm O'Regan chips in from Dublin with his take...

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