How to future-proof the West's economies
Top economic thinkers from the U.S. and Europe say we need to start by fixing our politics.
Top economic thinkers from the U.S. and Europe say we need to start by fixing our politics.
The POLITICO Cabinet
At a time of political and technological disruption on both sides of the Atlantic, a new initiative – The POLITICO Cabinet – brings together the smartest thinkers and decision-makers from the United States and Europe to identify, analyze and find solutions to the new challenges facing the West.
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Michael Froman
former U.S trade representative
Megan Greene
managing director and chief economist, Manulife Asset Management Limited
Nico Lange
director, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA
Sonja Gibbs
senior director, global capital markets, Institute of International Finance
Victoria Espinel
president and CEO, BSA The Software Alliance
Marjorie Chorlins
vice president, European Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Veronique de Rugy
senior research fellow, Mercatus Center
Maura Reynolds
Moderator
Who cares about growth? ... Measures of inequality, that’s what we should be looking at.
Automation really carves out the middle chunk of jobs, and that exacerbates inequality.
All the super-nationalism is going to burn itself out in part because it’s going to be economically unsustainable.
Millennials ... are the most high-maintenance consumers that this world has ever seen.
Ten of the best security minds in the United States and Europe tell us what they really think we should do about Russia.
Russia has to win in Ukraine because a Europeanizing Ukraine is the end of Putinism — not the end of Russia, but the end of Putinism.
What the [Russian] cyber intrusions revealed is that we are decades behind ... and that our most urgent need is to figure out how to catch up.