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Stock markets around the world continue to tumble and some are forecasting the sharpest international downturn in decades: what’s ahead for the global economy
Stephen Roach, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia
Nariman Behravesh, Global Chief Economist, IHS Global Insight
Ted Truman, senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, former assistant secretary of the US Treasury for International Affairs (December 1998 to January 2001), and former director the Division of International Finance of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1977 to 1998)
Bob Davis, senior economics writer, Wall Street Journal
Renowned sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot explains how today’s generation of fifty to seventy-five-year-olds are transforming their retirement years.
Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot, is a sociologist and Professor of Education at Harvard University and the chair of the board of the MacArthur Foundation.
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