Adam Tooze on How to Manage Record Inflation

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Energy prices are surging. Food supplies are depleted. Stocks have entered bear market territory. And inflation is running at historic highs. FP columnist and Columbia University professor Adam Tooze points out that while the economy is in rapid slowdown, he still doesn’t consider this to be a crisis. Find out more by watching his in-depth interview with FP’s editor in chief, Ravi Agrawal.

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History professor and director of the European Institute at Columbia University

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Ravi Agrawal

Editor in chief, Foreign Policy

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Why This Isn’t an Economic Crisis

Adam Tooze points out that while the economy is in rapid slowdown, this is no time to panic.

Insider  |  Ravi Agrawal

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