Brian Parker
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1,041 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Apr
Brian Parker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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AI must be labor enhancing.
It cannot in aggregate be labor replacing because the social repercussions of that and the political repercussions of that
are very frightening.
I do worry that if I look at the people who are leading this charge, are they really the best people to guide us on this journey?
Is that really the kind of society we want to live in?
Look, at the end of the day, I've always just been fascinated by the working of markets and financial markets, but also how the economy works and how it all fits together.
I've also been really fascinated by politics and history.
And to me, when it comes to investing money,
You know, knowing the maths and knowing the finance theory is one thing, but having a good understanding of politics and history and how it all fits together and how economies work, to me that makes the job endlessly fascinating.
I don't really have a boring day at work, especially not now.
there is always something happening.
There's always something left field that could potentially emerge that you need to have a view on and need to analyze.
So I just continue to, I've been doing this for 35 years.
I started as a child prodigy, clearly.
But I've just never had a boring day at work, really, because there was always something to be thinking about and something to be analyzing.
Look, the job is 50-50.
Half the role is I sit in investment strategy and I talk to a whole bunch of really, really smart people who build investment portfolios and we provide macro advice to them.
We're not trying to forecast what the economy is going to do or what markets are going to do in the next three months, six months, because frankly, who knows?
But what we do try and do is think about how the world might evolve
over the medium to longer term, what might go right, but also what might go wrong, especially if those things are going to influence the way markets might behave.
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