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Dr Doom predicts ‘five wars’ might just ruin it all for Australia

Nouriel Roubin says governments will need to fight five highly inflationary ‘wars’ in the coming decades. This will lead to four key challenges for Australia.

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New York University professor and economist Nouriel Roubini has become known around the world as Dr Doom for his grim view on where the world is heading. At The Australian Financial Review Business Summit in Sydney on Tuesday morning, he did his best to live up to his name.

Having first warned that we are “on the verge of a great break in the global economy”, Roubini then declared that we should start to worry about the potential for artificial intelligence to eventually make “our own species obsolete”.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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