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Azeem Azhar

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6838 total appearances

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

themselves, which actually may advantage the U.S.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

over the next few years.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

Yeah, well, fair enough.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

I mean, we're going to figure it out.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

And the one thing I would say in the UK now is in the last week, the government has really come out fighting.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

They've come out fighting for investments in infrastructure, for public-private partnerships.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

It's a sort of, I suppose, quite a healthy neo-Keynesianism in a way, right?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

Let's build a lot of stuff.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

Let's make sure it's infrastructural, make sure you can build on top of it rather than, you know, spinning up debt for consumption this year or the next.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

We had another question.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

When does it make sense for the Fed to raise interest rates?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

Is it possible that high interest rates might help with labor disruptions?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

I'm not quite sure I understand the second part of that.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

Yeah, and I also wonder about when we think about how this intersects with the labor market, what is happening from a geographical structure perspective?

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

As we move into these advanced economies, you get this effect of agglomeration.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

People want to get to where the other...

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

strong growing companies are.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

And so you get these clusters building, San Francisco Bay Area being the most powerful in the world.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

And it strikes me as quite a challenging public policy problem to figure out how to turn a 21st century economy into one that grows

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman (2025 re-run)

across a broad geographic spread.