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Coming Soon: The New Economy · Trumponomics

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  Speaker 1: So imagine you had around four hundred senior leaders and
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  Speaker 1: thinkers from around the world gathered in one room for
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  Speaker 1: two days to think about the future of the global
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  Speaker 1: economy and how to make it better. What would you
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  Speaker 1: want to talk about first? It's not just a thought experiment.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what is going to happen in Singapore this
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  Speaker 1: November at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum, and this being
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  Speaker 1: in my Bloomberg production. They're going to talk about a lot,
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  Speaker 1: including climate change, technology and finance, the future of cities,
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  Speaker 1: and the challenge of inclusion. I'm Stephanie Flanders, head of
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  Speaker 1: Bloomberg Economics. I'm studying the conversation early with the New
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  Speaker 1: Economy Podcasts, a six part series involving some of Bloomberg's
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  Speaker 1: smartest analysts and reporters. International relations as a discipline hasn't
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  Speaker 1: come up with any new paradigm since ancient Greece, which
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  Speaker 1: I think reflects badly on international relations scholars. I have
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  Speaker 1: never seen anything like this plant at Rolls Royce. The
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  Speaker 1: robots operating behind the windows of the big boxes are
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  Speaker 1: constantly self optimizing, that is, remeasuring themselves. When I started
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  Speaker 1: investigating the Green Book, I discovered that many trade experts
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  Speaker 1: hadn't heard of it. I asked the Chinese government to
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  Speaker 1: talk to me about it, but I had a brick
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  Speaker 1: wall of silence. Mounting segregation, mounting poverty, massive concentrated disadvantage.
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  Speaker 1: This geography of haves and have nots is creating the
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  Speaker 1: greatest political backlash and the greatest political crisis of our time.
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  Speaker 1: I read a lot of science fiction, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that about I would say about one third of science
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  Speaker 1: fiction scenarios tend to come truth. That's the new economy coming.
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  Speaker 1: October twenty nine