How to live with economic doomsaying

Name: How to live with economic doomsaying
Uploaded: 2024-03-28T14:56:10Z
Duration: 10 min 2 s
Description: Economic crises can and do happen. But for every true crisis, there are many false alarms, says economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak. He explains how to live with the media's pervasive economic doomsaying, why we should stop treating financial forecasts like a precise science — and what we should embrace instead.

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Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak |

TED@BCG

• November 2023

Economic crises can and do happen. But for every true crisis, there are many false alarms, says economist Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak. He explains how to live with the media's pervasive economic doomsaying, why we should stop treating financial forecasts like a precise science — and what we should embrace instead.