Global Economics:The inequality challenge

2018marks the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis and the start of the great recession.On our forecasts, it is also expected to be the second year of the strongest global growth since theimmediate post-crisis bounce of 2010. This is excellent news as far as it goes, but in fact thelegacy of the crisis persists in many ways – in the form of continued monetary stimulus virtuallyeverywhere, in the exuberance of property and financial markets (a direct consequence ofquantitative easing), in the rise of income inequality and the growth of populism.