Our guest on this episode is Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, the Global Chief Economist at BCG and author of a new book: Shocks, Crises and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk. He explains why it\u2019s wrong to put focus on extreme \u201cdoom mongering\u201d predictions - which often turn out to be false alarms. We discuss his intuitive framework for evaluating economic predictions and use it to evaluate the risk of inflation and debt in the coming years.
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Episode TimeStamps:
02:07 - Introduction to Philipp Carlsson
03:08 - What motivated Carlsson to write his book?
05:13 - A framework for assessing macro risk
09:00 - How do we react to doomsayings?
11:18 - Covid19 - the perfect example of a false alarm
15:15 - The new area of tightness
18:27 - It is all about labour cost
23:46 - The deflationary power of technology
26:46 - The outlook of the labour market
32:22 - Why inflation expectations will stay achored in a world of...