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Brexit voters could be 'worse off'

13/06/2017

Stephen King - Economist

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Stephen Sackur speaks to Stephen King, the writer and former chief economist to HSBC bank.

Stephen Sackur speaks to Stephen King, the writer and former chief economist to HSBC bank, to ask if globalisation and liberal economics are stuck in reverse gear?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Stephen King, the influential economist, writer and former chief economist to HSBC bank. The western world's position as the dominant force in global politics and economics is confused and uncertain, with the recent elections in the UK and France pointing to fractures in Europe. 

Meanwhile, president Trump and Angela Merkel have worldviews that are poles apart and the western consensus on liberal economics and globalisation is at loggerheads. Is globalisation stuck in reverse gear?

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