The rise of artificial intelligence and the digital economy might be more disruptive than global debt. Photo: AFP
Opinion
Opinion
Macroscope by Lee Howell
The real lesson from Lehman Brothers collapse: tech disruption, not global debt, could spark the next crisis
Lee Howell says experts worrying about global debt are on the wrong track. The biggest development of the past decade is the dominance of tech firms and digital platforms, and regulators’ failure to keep up with the emerging winner-take-all market