2025-05-18
42 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm producer Mia Sorrenti, 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 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 Helen Thompson.
We're going to do an energy special about global energy.
But I suppose we kind of if we're going to do an economic outlook kind of 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 installment,
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 historical overview to kind of give some...
context to these developments and how Trump's next actions might impact us going forward this year.