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“[Ebola] has gone on undetected throughout dozens of communities and schools and, arguably, in transport. . . . The right blood tests for the right strain, Bundibugyo strain, weren’t available in t...
“We could get rid of malnutrition for under-5-year-olds. We really could,” says Janti Soeripto, president and CEO of Save the Children USA. “The world knows plenty about what that takes, how much i...
“Many authoritarians may not be inherently misogynistic, but they see this as a brilliant tactical move to sideline half of the competition,” says Linda Robinson, CFR expert and author of “Women in...
Former Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen “has actually really been trying to form a democratic coalition around the world. . . . a collective of like-minded countries rather than a formal name like NAT...
“I’ve got to make sure what we’re doing and what’s going on is in the interest of our customers, of our people, and the different communities we serve. So if we see things that is particularly prob...
“The goal of the Fed is not to support the housing market. It's not to support a particular sector. Frankly, it's not to support—contrary to what people think—equity prices,” says CFR expert Roger ...
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Stephanie Psaki, senior fellow for global health and national security at CFR, provides an update on current infectious disease threats, including the latest developments on the Ebola outbreak, int...
“But at the moment, it’s a low-churn market, so not a huge amount of job creation but not a huge amount of job loss either. So we’re kind of treading water. It’s fragile, but it’s still working,” s...
“Some of the safest jobs from AI currently are in…things that require fine motor function from a human being. The people who are actually most in danger right now are people who frankly, read and w...
“The consumer has also been resilient. We sometimes forget how strong America is because of that—the affluent consumer base that is here in comparison to other countries, and that consumer has also...
“We've seen the Chinese version. They think they have a very clear view of the jobs that are going to be called for and those that aren't, and they're going to swing their entire population in a ce...
This episode unpacks the unique challenges faced by women leaders, their contributions to democracy, and the critical lessons they offer in the fight against authoritarianism.
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“The more artificial intelligence progresses, the more it has a clarifying effect of isolating, surfacing, and amplifying uniquely human qualities,” says Ali Wyne, senior research and advocacy advi...
“He was more right than wrong about the major issues of the day,” says CFR expert Roger Ferguson, recalling his time working alongside former Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, who has passed at...
“My brain on AI, though, can beat your brain on AI all day long because I’ve got 40 years of judgment built in. . . . So continuing to build that critical judgment, learning, wargaming, sort of adv...
“This is mission critical,” says World Bank President Ajay Banga, describing the need to act ahead of a job crisis for 1.2 billion young people in emerging markets. “This is not a choice. You canno...
"The middle class in America has not gotten smaller, okay? That's a fantasy, and it's actually gotten much richer," says Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorganChase, in a discussion about the U....
“When Mark Carney said, ‘The middle powers should get together’—it’s a fantasy. They did that, it’s called Europe,” says Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorganChase. “The GDP of Europe has gone ...
“Here’s an IQ test. Ready? If you could only invest all your money in one country, what country would it be?” asks Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorganChase. “There’s only one obvious answer, ...