2026-02-09
9 分钟NPR When you look at the global economy today It's easy to get the impression that things are bad.
After all,
when you turn on the news and it seems like all you hear about is countries dealing with financial panics,
trade wars, soaring inflation, collapsing industries.
Yeah.
Is that our fault?
Well, remember we did our sentiment analysis.
We're slightly cheeryer than the average financial news source.
Okay.
So, you know, maybe like half guilty as charged.
Yeah.
Ishwar Prasad is a little different, though.
He's an optimist by nature,
and he's also a professor of economics and trade policy at Cornell University.
When he sat down to write his most recent book about the global economy,
he wanted to focus on the positive.
Sure, he thought the world seems like it's in turmoil right now,
but when you zoom out, there's a more optimistic story to tell.
One could argue, and I was going to argue,
that we're just in a transitional period where there is a lot of volatility,