Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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But the broader point that you're making, which is there's something much bigger, much more structural going on than purely what you can tease from these economic data points is essential.
Yeah.
Let me take host progress.
And people like Obamacare.
People like Obamacare.
And you and I, I think, would both agree that this was not an actual social investment for the betterment of the people of the country.
I posted on that just the other day, and people are surprised.
They're like, that's gotta be fake news.
So, look, I think that we do need, there's an interplay between the independent and the variable here.
You get really wonky, right?
In other words, you have underlying issues that come from free trade, robotics, innovation that hollows out a whole bunch of the middle class in the United States and in Europe.
Add to the advantage of emerging middle classes in China and India and the so-called global south, the former emerging market.
What I mean when I say that is you have large numbers of communities that no longer have the same industrial base, the same civic connection, the same institutions around them, the Robert Putnam bowling alone.
We hollowed out places.
Places.
Yes, places.
But places that have community and civic engagement and citizens.
But this is important.
It's super important.
And we don't talk about it correctly, in my view.
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