StraightTalk® Global Economic Outlook 2015: Are We Asleep at the Wheel?

Barring major geopolitical upheaval, global economic growth will hold at 3.4 percent in 2015. In this issue of StraightTalk, The Conference Board Chief Economist Bart van Ark looks at the long-term business implications of the slowing growth trend that is a head of us. Downsides to the outlook relate to intensifying political and economic risks; upsides relate to the ability of policy and business to invest in people, raise productivity, and rebuild public trust and confidence.