I attended a discussion at the Metropolitan Museum in New York just now. Paul Krugman, Edmund Phelps, Jeffrey Sachs, and George Soros talked about the state of the economy in the U.S., Europe, China, and the world. They said basically nothing of any value, save for a double mention by Sachs of the fraudulence and corruption of "Wall Street" and the banks - although he did mention the banks by name - Bank of America, Citibank, etc.
Perhaps ironically - the best commentary was by Thomas Campbell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._Campbell - the young (50) British (probably American by now) Director of the Met. He gave a broad but concise, highly intelligent overview of the historical relationship between economy and art patronage.
I didn't record the panel discussion - and frankly it would have been a waste of iPhone disk space to have done so - but it was broadcast on C-Span. Nobody mentioned nukes or nuclear bombs or atomic bombs. And I could not for the life of me imagine why the two "economists" present received Nobel Prizes. What exactly is an economist anyways? - other than a paid liar? They might as well be talking about global warming for all the rubbish they spew.