Adam and Cameron discuss Europe's domestic politics, including the collapse of the French government, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's "autumn of reforms," and the struggles of the United Kingdom's Labour Party government led by Keir Starmer.
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India and Tennis
The Trump administration’s 50 percent tariffs on India took effect last week. Adam and Cameron dive in.
Also on the episode: the economics of tennis.
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The Future of the Federal Reserve
U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to oust a member of the Federal Reserve board raises broader questions about the agency’s future as an independent entity.
Also on the show: The economics of hamburgers.
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The Scale of China
Adam recently spent a month traveling around China. He and Cameron discuss the vast scale of the country and how its size bears on China’s economic, political, and historical role in the world.
Also on the show: Fifty years to the Hollywood movie Jaws.
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Introducing Radio Davos
We're jumping into your feed midweek to share an interview with Adam from this past June by our friends at the Radio Davos podcast. We'll be back with a new episode on Friday.
Radio Davos is a weekly podcast from the World Economic Forum that looks at the biggest challenges facing the world, and how they might be tackled. Find it wherever you get podcasts or at wef.ch/podcasts. Video-podcasts are posted at https://www.youtube.com/@wef/podcasts.
This episode of Radio Davos, an interview with Adam Tooze, was recorded at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, China on June 25, 2025.
Historian and podcaster Adam Tooze says we are at a turning point in history - as the Trump administration upends decades of assumptions on geopolitics, trade and the economy. Coinciding with the dawn of artificial intelligence, the rise of China, and demographic shifts are adding to transformative changes for us all.
CNBC anchor Chery Kang joins us in the studio at AMNC25 to co-host the episode.
This is a video-podcast, watch it on our YouTube channel: http://wef.ch/3GFeAvl
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Three experts on how to understand the USA
Tariffs, globalization, and democracy, with Harvard economist Dani Rodrik
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Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a popular author, is encyclopedic about basically everything: from the COVID shutdown, to climate change, to pasta sauce. On our new podcast, Tooze and FP deputy editor Cameron Abadi will look at two data points each week that explain the world: one drawn from the week’s headlines and the other from just about anywhere else Tooze takes us. Check out Adam Tooze’s column at https://foreignpolicy.com/author/adam-tooze/.
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