What Comes After a Week That Shook the World: John Authers

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Divide and Rule

We’re living through arguably the most truly global attempt to tighten financial conditions in memory. This is shifting the tectonic plates beneath the world economy, and threatens dangerous developments in society and in politics as we all try to adapt. And yet what strikes the eye after a week of market landmarks and aggressive interventions by central banks is the continuing discord. There’s a broad acknowledgement that the future involves tighter conditions to combat inflation, and with it an elevated risk of recession; but even though ...