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The Spillover

Every geopolitical event — a war, an election, a new tariff, a technological breakthrough — sends ripples through the global economy. On The Spillover, Rebecca Patterson and her guests trace those ripples, examining how international developments shape markets, policy, finance, and the future of business.

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 41 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Spillover

“One of the reasons we were successful in the old days with arms control is because we came to an understanding that you couldn't win a nuclear arms race. … So the only way, if I were to be less skeptical, is for us to genuinely believe on both sides that the pursuit of dominance is unachievable and undesirable. … It isn't the most important thing in the world to be number one here.” — James Steinberg, The Spillover
James Steinberg · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If AI had come in … 2009, when we were in a recession and we had slack and we had low interest rates and low inflation, it would have been a miracle. But it's coming now. And so it's still potentially a miracle. But it's having a lot more costs on the way to the miracle because it's so big and it's happening now.” — Rebecca Patterson, The Spillover
Rebecca Patterson · 7 Oct 2026 Listen →
“There are serious people in official places talking contingency plans for what it would take for an IMF, European Central Bank, Troika kind of thing to bail out France. People are doing contingency planning on that now. This is for real.” — Adam Posen, The Spillover
Adam Posen · 1 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think the point of the forecast isn't to get it right. It's nice if you do. The point of the forecast is to force the committee to make clear where they differ from one another, what they're watching, and why, and explain why they got it wrong.” — Adam Posen, The Spillover
Adam Posen · 1 Oct 2026 Listen →
“If we don't get energy right, we have no hope of tackling climate.” — Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, The Spillover
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran · 1 Sep 2026 Listen →
“in an organization, there are bottlenecks and the whole organization moves forward at the speed of the slowest piece of it.” — Sebastian Mallaby, The Spillover
Sebastian Mallaby · 18 Aug 2026 Listen →
“I think it's premature to assume that the U.S. will be the world's AI economic winner. I also think it's premature to think the U.S. will continue to be the world's leader in AI development.” — Rebecca Patterson, The Spillover
Rebecca Patterson · 18 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Spillover is hosted by Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    Transactional U.S. Foreign Policy + Who Are America’s Friends Now?

    With James Steinberg

  2. 22 Oct 2026

    Brazil’s Runoff Election Is a Close Race Between Lula and Bolsonaro

    With Shannon K. O'Neil

  3. 15 Oct 2026

    Lame Ducks, Black Swans, and the 2026 Midterm Elections

    With Henrietta Treyz

  4. 7 Oct 2026

    What We Got Right (and Wrong) This Year

  5. 1 Oct 2026

    Central Banks in a Bind + Could AI Replace the FOMC?

    With Adam Posen

  6. 25 Sep 2026

    Why Won’t Europe Do More For Ukraine? + The Rise of Pro-Russia Populism

    With Anne Applebaum

  7. 14 Sep 2026

    Nvidia Bets Big on Hugging Face + Sebastian Sashimi + AI-Powered Toothbrushes

  8. 10 Sep 2026

    Can the U.S. ‘Grow’ Its Way Out of Debt? + Taxing Wealth in the Age of AI

    With Natasha Sarin

  9. 1 Sep 2026

    The U.S. Buys a Majority Stake in a Venezuelan Oil Company + Why Efficiency Is the Real Path to Energy Security

    With Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

  10. 26 Aug 2026

    Could the AI Debt Problem Create the Next Financial Crisis?

    With Torsten Slok

  11. 18 Aug 2026

    The Hosts Pick a Global AI Winner + The Advanced Economy Deployment Problem + The Question Even the Experts Can't Answer

  12. 12 Aug 2026

    How China Is Quietly Winning the Iran War Energy Crisis

    With Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Guests

Natasha Sarin , Natasha Kaneva , Michael Froman , Dan Kurtz-Phelan , Gina Raimondo , Jordan Schneider , Rahm Emanuel , Henrietta Treyz , Torsten Slok , Shannon K. O'Neil , William C. Dudley , Anne Applebaum , and 13 more.