2025-11-05
26 分钟Ever had a bad feeling about something?
We're in the middle of an enormous economic bubble,
and when it collapses, it's going to be very bad.
That everything could just fall apart.
Like every bubble, it's hard to know when you're in one until it's popped.
Surviving bubbles, that's World Business Report from the BBC World Service.
Yes,
I'm Ed Butler and today we're going to be examining the growing fears that the boom in artificial intelligence could be an unsustainable bubble that's ready to burst and which could threaten all global growth.
We're hearing from the best-selling author and commentator Andrew Ross Sorkin.
But before that...
What may be the biggest battle yet in Donald Trump's global trade war is about to begin.
The US Supreme Court is to consider on Wednesday whether the range of import duties that the White House imposed on all kinds of foreign nations this year,
from China to India to Eswatini, are actually legal under US law.
Specifically,
the case involves tariffs applied under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act which the White House used to bypass Congress and other bureaucratic processes.
With me to consider the issues here and what's at stake politically as well as economically as Gillian Tett,
provost of Quickings College, Cambridge and a columnist for the Financial Times.
It's big, isn't it, both in economic terms but also in political terms Gillian,
capturing I guess what so many of the concerns that opponents have about the use of executive power in the Trump White House.
Absolutely.