Paid Subscriber Exclusive*: Current Affairs With... Jeffrey Sachs

From Ukraine, to NATO, to Inflation, China, and beyond Jeffrey Sachs mixes facts with logical analysis, and years of economic expertise. The result is compelling. Watch the video dialogue

This second in our series, Current Affairs with… This month I talked to world renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs, at Columbia. We began, as is inevitable, with Ukraine, where Sachs presented a compelling, and depressing history of bad US Foreign policy decisions in the region. We then moved to the more general topic of NATO, and in particular decisions by Finland and Sweden to apply for membership, in spite of, as Sachs pointed out, the fact that Finland now ranks as #1 in the world in happiness and sustainability markers. Then we talked about Inflation, the current pressures, what is likely to happen, and historical antecedents, China, and our policy of sanctions, and finally Oil and Gas. The net result was a very sobering discussion which anyone interested in thinking about the near term and far term future of global geopolitics and economics will want to listen to.