Financial Issues Forum presents Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz , on “Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms”
Virtual OnlyOverview The shocks and crises of recent years—pandemic, recession, inflation, war—have forced executives and investors to recognize that the macroeconomy is now a risk to be actively managed. Yet unreliable forecasting, pervasive doomsaying and whipsawing data severely hamper the task of decoding the landscape. Are disruptions transient and ephemeral—or permanent and structural? False [...]