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Graphic Truth: 2025 global growth projections
Graphic Truth

Graphic Truth: 2025 global growth projections

The World Bank projects global economic growth will slow to 2.3% in 2025, down from the 2.7% clip forecast in January, as a result of trade wars launched largely by the US.

Global economic outlook: Is a recession already here?
World Bank & IMF Meetings

Global economic outlook: Is a recession already here?

“We’re heading toward a substantial U.S. recession,” said Robert Kahn, Eurasia Group’s Managing Director, Global Macro.. “We may even be in one now.” That notion challenges the official economic outlook released this week by the International Monetary Fund, which was more cautious in its assessment.

​Trump in front of a downward trending graph and economic indicators.
by ian bremmer

America is souring on Trumponomics. Trump may not care.

For someone who campaigned on lowering grocery prices on day one and rode widespread economic discontent to the White House, Donald Trump sure seems bent on pursuing policies that will increase that discontent.

Ian Bremmer on the forces behind the geopolitical recession
Quick Take

Ian Bremmer on the forces behind the geopolitical recession

Are we living through a geopolitical recession? In this Quick Take, Ian Bremmer explains what this means for global order, why power dynamics are shifting away from established norms, and the implications for a world without clear leadership.

Have the US and Canada managed a soft landing?
GZERO North

Have the US and Canada managed a soft landing?

An economic outlook report from Deloitte Canada suggests the country will avoid a recession and begin to recover in the second half of 2024 – assuming the US economy keeps humming along, the Bank of Canada starts cutting interest rates soon, and newcomers keep arriving.

​Specialists tend to the body of a victim outside a damaged shopping center hit by a missile strike in Belgorod, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2024.
Hard Numbers

Hard Numbers: Missiles hit Russian border city, ex-FBI informant in Biden bribe case faces charges, Gaza needs new ‘Marshall Plan,’ UK slips into recession, Bangkok’s air becomes unbreathable

An abstract image of the world map and shapes.
Living Beyond Borders Podcasts

Episode 3: Inflation Nations: What to know about inflation and interest rates

Listen: "During the course of this year, the Fed will not be concerned only with inflation as the months go by,; increasingly the pendulum will shift and they'll be concerned about the employment part of their mandate as well," says Charlie Reinhard, Head of Investment Strategy for North America at Citi Global Wealth Investments.

People buying food in China | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer - the podcast
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Podcast: China's economic head start & a world accelerating into recession

Listen: What's in store for the global economy in 2023? Well, it's not going to be pretty. A raging war in Europe, sky-high inflation, and an unstable China will create strong economic headwinds in the year to come. But it’s not all doom and gloom. Globalization has brought prosperity to billions worldwide. And in the United States, the economy has made it out of the pandemic remarkably well. On the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer speaks to renowned global economist, Dambisa Moyo, who says global inflation is not going anywhere, as the likelihood of a worldwide recession looms large.

Emerging markets most vulnerable to recession and political discontent
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Emerging markets most vulnerable to recession and political discontent

Inflation shockwaves is Eurasia Group's top geopolitical risk No. 4 for 2023. But who is most vulnerable to the effects of rising interest rates and a looming global recession? Emerging markets. Why? For Rob Kahn, managing director for geo-economics at Eurasia Group, these countries are in deep trouble because they have higher debt and more subject to sudden stops of capital flows that'll make it harder for them to pay for stuff. Not to mention that the pandemic has killed any fiscal monetary policy space they had before COVID.