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Dr. Adam Posen Talks U.S.-Saudi Relationship

18 Nov 2025

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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All right, we're going to stay on global relationships, the economies that drive them, and turn on over to Dr. Adam Posen. He's president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He joins us from, I believe, the nation's capital on this Tuesday. Yes, Washington, D.C. Dr. Posen, good to have you here. Back here on Bloomberg and on Bloomberg Businessweek Daily.

Chapter 2: What is the significance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship?

628.456 - 644.671 Dr. Adam Posen

It will divide the world. It will increase instability in investment markets. It will waste public money. It's bad in a lot of ways. I just merely want to be very clear that though it's unusual for the U.S.

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644.691 - 660.868 Dr. Adam Posen

in the last 100 plus years to behave this way in our long ago history and in other countries around the world, this has taken place and that there have been much smaller, much less overt examples of this. by previous US administrations.

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660.888 - 677.886 Carol Massar

Well, and you know, just thinking about all you've just said, Dr. Posen, and then kind of squaring that with the recent government shutdown and the domestic issues that kind of came to the forefront, you know, the one in eight Americans who are on some kind of food assistance or food stamps.

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677.866 - 695.105 Carol Massar

you know, the amount of Americans that are just struggling to put food on their table, a roof over their head. I want to bring it down then with so much focus on global issues. And some would say when you're president, you have to look beyond the U.S. borders as well as within the U.S. borders.

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695.125 - 705.797 Carol Massar

But having said that, what is it that, you know, is maybe being ignored in your view domestically that's really got to be addressed?

708.072 - 737.792 Dr. Adam Posen

And you're asking very profound questions. I'll just say that in an enlightened administration, the reason you get involved in the rest of the world is because it ultimately is to if you set up a rest of the world that feels safer and less corrupt and more stable and less subject to disease and refugee flows and wars, that's ultimately to the benefit of the average American.

737.772 - 750.664 Dr. Adam Posen

And if you have open and free commerce on a rules-based basis, that raises American opportunities and American citizens' purchasing power. So I agree with you. There's a question of how you prioritize.

Chapter 3: How is Saudi Arabia transitioning its economy away from fossil fuels?

750.784 - 767.779 Dr. Adam Posen

And this goes to the point with Saudi. I'm not sure that that should be the biggest priority of an American administration right now. It's fine. You can walk and chew gum. It can be one of the things. So when you say what's in the domestic front, I think the removal of health care support

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767.759 - 786.274 Dr. Adam Posen

subsidies and access to Medicaid and to all these Obamacare related things is going to materially affect the health and well being of millions of human beings in the US. And that is bad economically, but it's bad in human terms.

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786.254 - 816.21 Dr. Adam Posen

I think the reduction of options through the anti-migration policies, through other policies that make it so more people, mostly women in late middle age, have to stay home to be caregivers to elders and to children and to disabled people is materially bad for humans and is a huge pressure on people. And I think the combination of anti-migration policy, attacks on the Fed, tariffs,

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816.19 - 838.519 Dr. Adam Posen

deal making, some of which looks corrupt, all adds to a more inflationary environment, which reduces real incomes for people. So there's a whole bunch of things on the domestic front. But I just want to say that it's not about choosing the global versus domestic. It's about choosing the self-interested versus the public welfare.

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839.478 - 849.443 Carol Massar

I think we need to leave it there. I got to say, sometimes I'm in awe of our guests, and I certainly am on this Tuesday. Dr. Posen, thank you so much. Really appreciate all we could.

849.463 - 850.546 Dr. Adam Posen

Thank you for having me.

850.566 - 857.082 Carol Massar

Same here. Thank you for joining us. Dr. Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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