Monday 7th July - 05:20 PM BST
Opening Interview: The price of populism: Jason Furman on the US economy
How the US can pull back from the brink
The recent election of Trump has brought with it a firm rejection of the current state of the US economy by Americans and has endorsed a set of economic ideas rejected by nearly all mainstream economists. From unilateral tariffs to major tax cuts and sweeping government spending cuts, Trump has rewritten the US economy seemingly overnight. Join Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, as he cuts through the noise of the US economy and argues that we need businesses to behave like businesses and governments to behave like governments, rather than a mix or reversal of the two.
Big ideas in your inbox.
Updates from the world's greatest minds - plus offers and discounts.
Jason Furman
Obama's chief economic advisor
Jason Furman is a prominent American economist known for his extensive contributions to public policy, academia, and economic analysis. He currently serves as the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University. He served as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) under President Barack Obama from August 2013 to January 2017. In this role, he acted as a principal economic advisor to the President.
Furman has been deeply involved in the intersection of academic research and public policy. His scholarship and policy work often emphasize the effectiveness of fiscal tools for promoting economic growth and reducing inequality, and he is known for advocating pragmatic, data-driven approaches to complex economic problems.
Eshe Nelson
NYT economics reporter
Eshe Nelson is a business and economics reporter for the New York Times. She was previously a reporter for Bloomberg and a recipient of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University.