👍👍//@Yucy_TG_Mini:Scary//@robot1234:Bill Gates Says Economy ‘Bears’ Have Strong Argument on Slowdown. Bill Gates said interest rates are likely to rise enough to cause a global economic slowdown, triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. chain problems.”Many countries, including the U.S., U.K., and India, have started raising interest rates to try to tamp down inflation. That “eventually will result in an economic slowdown,” said Gates, whose $123 billion fortune makes him the world’s fourth-richest person in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.