Are the headline growth figures really telling us the full story about the global economy? Gita Gopinath, a former deputy managing director at the IMF and a professor of economics at Harvard University, discusses this question with Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator. They talk about how AI investments are offsetting the economic drag from tariffs, the risk of another financial crisis and whether the dollar can remain the world’s dominant currency.

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Presented by Soumaya Keynes. Produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon and Alex Bell. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Original music and sound design by Breen Turner.

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