BWC Vice Chair Rebecca Patterson joined Catalyst by Camber Creek for a wide-ranging conversation on why CEOs, policymakers, and journalists keep calling her to make sense of a turbulent global economy. Drawing on lessons from the decline of US manufacturing since the 1970s, Patterson explores what that history suggests about AI’s likely impact on labor markets, why simultaneous economic shocks are fueling populism worldwide (and why populist policies so often fail to fix the problems driving it), and why she believes globalization is evolving rather than disappearing as companies pursue friendshoring and supply-chain diversification.

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