Stagflation: be alert, not alarmed - EP143

The World Bank has downgraded its global economic growth forecast and has warned of the rising risk of stagflation. What is stagflation and how likely is it? And a related question: what is a wage-price spiral and how likely is it? Show host Gene Tunny and his colleague Arturo Espinoza discuss how the current global situation is similar and dissimilar to the 1970s, with a consideration of recent perspectives from the World Bank and BIS.