🎧 Morten Hansen (SSE Riga) on fighting inflation, how deep recession should we expect, energy prices & what will it take to rebuild Ukraine. Ep.95 The Pursuit of Scrappiness

Morten Hansen is the Head of the Economics department at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. Morten has been working as a lecturer for over 20 years as well as serves as vice-chairman of Fiscal Discipline Council of Latvia.In this episode we talk about:Inflation origins and how to fight itWhat is the magnitude of the looming recession?Is wage growth going to stop anytime soon?Can governments handle the rising interest rates on their debt?Why are the Baltics seeing higher inflation than...