Co-host Janet Bush talks with Stephen King. King is a senior economic advisor to HSBC, having served as the bank’s group chief economist from 1998 to 2015. His latest book, very prescient in timing, is We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:
The root causes of the current resurgence of inflation
How long higher inflation may persist
What history tells us about the management of inflation
The main economic problem that lies ahead
Why inflation matters

<p>Co-host Janet Bush talks with Stephen King. King is a senior economic advisor to HSBC, having served as the bank’s group chief economist from 1998 to 2015. His latest book, very prescient in timing, is <em><a href="https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300270471/we-need-to-talk-about-inflation/">We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years</a></em>. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>The root causes of the current resurgence of inflation</li>
<li>How long higher inflation may persist</li>
<li>What history tells us about the management of inflation</li>
<li>The main economic problem that lies ahead</li>
<li>Why inflation matters</li>
</ul>

Forward Thinking examines groundbreaking ways in which the world is evolving and how people and organizations can respond to changing demands and technologies. In each episode theorists, innovators, and business leaders discuss global trends—technology, artificial intelligence, globalization, urbanization, climate change, and more—with hosts Michael Chui and Janet Bush of the McKinsey Global Institute.

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“We need to talk about inflation. It’s unfair. It’s not democratic, It’s a terrible thing to unleash on society. And I think many of us have forgotten what damage it can do,” says a leading British economist.

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