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BCG’s Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak on Global Macro: Recession Risk, Tariffs, Debt Dynamics | #582

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Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak explains why recessions are like infections, heart disease, and cancer in economic history.
Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, BCG's chief economist, discusses macroeconomic risks, recession forecasting, tariffs, and public debt dynamics with host Meb Faber. He critiques common economic models and doomsaying, offering insights from his book on assessing true risks in a global context.

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A clean macro frame for tariffs, debt, and the operating-system shift.

Philip Carlson, BCG's chief economist, brings a framework-first lens to tariffs and debt, and he treats tariffs as a real inflection point rather than a passing flare-up.

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Want a macro lens that treats tariffs as a real regime change?

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