Sabri Beneshour
speaker
927 appearances
29 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Sabri Beneshour’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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stocks and bond markets are closed today in observance of Martin Luther King Day.
Normal trading hours resume tomorrow.
But we still got one number for you.
$18 trillion.
That is the combined wealth of the world's billionaires.
That number is the highest it has ever been after surging 16% in 2025 and 81% since 2020.
This is according to anti-poverty group Oxfam, which points out that one in four people worldwide struggle with food insecurity and nearly half the world's population lives in poverty.
China's economy grew at 5% last year.
That is despite economic challenges, not least of which is President Trump's trade war.
One reason is that China's industries are adapting, and that is having spillover effects in the rest of the world.
Last week, China reported its largest annual trade surplus ever.
That means China is exporting a lot more stuff than it's importing, even though it is sending less stuff to the United States.
So where is all that stuff going?
Well, more of it is going to the EU and the UK.
And there are pros and cons to that.
Jay Shambaugh is professor of economics and international affairs at the George Washington University.
Jay, good morning.
Good morning.
So tariffs cut down how much we in the U.S.
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