Professor Jeffrey Sachs

At the Antalya Diplomatic forum ,Prof Sachs talks sense.In order to fix the budget instead of trimming social security,welfare of veterans,medical care n education budget,why not close down some of the 80 global American military bases all around the world.Starting wars is more costly than diplomatic efforts to resolve issues from a trade war to regime changes. It was reported that in the US,in 10 states ,supermarkets are running out of stock and consumers may pay hefty prices soon for coming Christmas. But the more dangerous threat to the world that is bigger than Covid pandemic will be the climate crisis. It was mind blowing to get intelligent questions from the floor we have moved on from dealing with a tangible economy in the past from agriculture,manufacturing to intangibles like service and artificial intelligence.Has our nation prepared for the economic challenged ahead as the knowledge worker replaces the blue and white collar worker or are our heads still in the cloud and not the Google cloud and Deepfake comes along with Deepseek.Is the regulatory authorities ready for futureproofing the systemic shift