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The World Business Academy is a non-profit business think tank and network of business and thought leaders founded in 1986 with the mission to inspire and help business assume responsibility for the whole of society. This podcast, featuring Academy President and Founder Rinaldo Brutoco, focuses on the state of the political economy including trends we see emerging in markets and how our listeners can prepare for them.

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?Every day is more collateral damage…? Recorded on September 5, 2018 The US economy looks to be growing steadily, but economists including Rinaldo continue to forecast a large recession in the near future. How do these two... more

Lately, global free trade has been under attack both rhetorically and politically, and some may ask why we should care. Every day we hear more and more about tariff policies and the trade war building between the United States and China.... more

Who wins in a trade war? The short answer is no one. As the United States takes an increasingly narrow and punitive view of economics, we find ourselves on the edge of economic recession. Not unlike the Smoot-Hawley era during the Great... more

On this show, we will check in on key economic indicators and project the impacts of various policies of the Trump administration, including the tax cuts and tariffs on imported goods. A key issue we will address is the ongoing crisis at the... more

Welcome back to our monthly take on economic trends and their interconnection with society. On this show, we will discuss some signs of an impending recession and explore how Rinaldo is balancing his portfolio to protect against it. Rinaldo... more

Ping-ponging markets and loose talk of military conflict are the latest manifestation of an increasingly uncertain global situation rife with risk and opportunity. While the latest tax bill has lightened the load on the upper echelons of corporate... more

This month we continue our discussion about the market and the Federal Reserve's wishful attempt to separate the discord in society from the current economy, with predictions of continued turmoil and a major market correction yet... more

This is the question on everyone's mind as the stock market swings wildly and the partisan gridlock in Washington D.C. has continued to decline into political warfare. The market is in serious trouble for one main reason: it's impossible to... more

In our year in review we discuss the prediction for a market correction in 2017 that has not yet occurred. Why is Wall Street so happy? What are the consequences of the rampant corporate and individual greed that appear to be dominating... more

Our pre-Thanksgiving show is dedicated to two major topics: the effort to slash taxes for the richest Americans and the unfolding regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Both of these ongoing political events are potentially... more