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Driving over the peak, or a false summit? − speech by Alan Taylor
Given at National University of Singapore
Published on
14 January 2026
Have we reached ‘peak trade’ and is globalisation now facing a downswing? What are the implications for monetary policy? Alan Taylor discusses the evolution of world trade, drawing on historical perspectives from the first age of globalisation in the 1800s up to the present.