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Susan Lund

Susan Lund

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Susan Lund is a partner at McKinsey & Company and a leader at the McKinsey Global Institute.

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  1. The Post-Pandemic Labor Market’s Long-Term Scars
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    The Post-Pandemic Labor Market’s Long-Term Scars

    Mar 17, 2021 Laura Tyson & Susan Lund warn that many of the lower-wage occupations displaced by lockdown restrictions are gone for good.

  2. America’s Uneven Future of Work
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    America’s Uneven Future of Work

    Sep 3, 2019 Laura Tyson & Susan Lund show how automation will affect workers across occupational, demographic, and geographic categories.

  3. The Blind Spot in the Trade Debate
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    The Blind Spot in the Trade Debate

    Mar 20, 2019 Laura Tyson & Susan Lund argue that a more accurate accounting of services flows is essential to understanding bilateral deficits.

  4. Work in an Age of Automation
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    Work in an Age of Automation

    Jul 12, 2018 Susan Lund & Eric Hazan examine which skills workers will need – and which will lose value – in the age of AI.

  5. Are We in a Corporate-Debt Bubble?
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    Are We in a Corporate-Debt Bubble?

    Jun 19, 2018 Susan Lund reports new findings on nonfinancial firms' growing liabilities and highlights the risks on the horizon.

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    The Indians Dividing MAGA

    Shashi Tharoor shows how one immigrant group became central to the “civil war” within Donald Trump’s base.
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    Shock Therapy for Multilateralism

    Harold James considers what another Donald Trump presidency will, and will not, mean for global cooperation.
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    Will Trump Fire the Fed?

    Kenneth Rogoff

    Despite Donald Trump’s assurances that he will not seek to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, there is little doubt that the US president-elect aims to gain greater influence over the Fed’s decision-making. Such interference could drive up long-term interest rates, damaging the American economy.

    worries about the incoming US administration’s plans to weaken the central bank’s independence.
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    Crypto’s Unholy Choir

    Andrés Velasco hears a chorus of deceivers, demagogues, dictators, and tax dodgers singing Donald Trump’s praises.
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    What Are the BRICS Good For?

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    Following the addition of new members to the BRICS, some observers believe that the group has a good chance of becoming the new lodestar of global politics and international affairs. But the organization is neither representative enough nor sufficiently united to lead others.

    explains why the group of major emerging economies will not become the new fulcrum of world politics.
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    MAGA Goes to Panama

    Ruti Teitel asks whether the United States ever became truly reconciled to giving up control of the canal it built.
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    China Won’t Save Labour’s Britain

    Chris Patten urges British policymakers to focus instead on crafting polices that really can promote economic recovery.
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    The Good, the Bad, and the Uncertainty of the Trump Economy

    Nouriel Roubini considers what the US president-elect's promised policy agenda will mean for growth and inflation.
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    Ban Solar Geoengineering

    Mohammed Usrof, et al. predict that the controversial technology will foist upon young people yet another crisis they did not create.

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