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    Ruchir Sharma

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    A writer and investor, he is the author of four books, including most recently “The 10 Rules of Successful Nations”. He is chair of Rockefeller International. The views expressed in his column are strictly his own.

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    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Market bubbles
      The markets are alive with the sound of echo bubbles

      Investors refuse to give up on ideas that recently made them a lot of money

      A Japanese businessmen checks share prices on a digital display in Tokyo
    • Sunday, 12 February, 2023
      Thailand
      The untold story of the world’s most resilient currency

      After Thailand became ground zero in the Asian financial crisis, the baht achieved a long-running stability

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      Global Economy
      The world is not ready for the long grind to come

      Demographic changes and deglobalisation will keep inflation higher than policymakers were used to pre-pandemic

      Commuters file through Grand Central Terminal in New York
    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Xi Jinping
      The Xi nobody saw coming

      China’s hardline leader has reversed his decisions on a wide range of policies, wrongfooting the rest of the world

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      From peak dollar to better TV: Ruchir Sharma’s investor guide to 2023

      With the era of easy money at an end, who will be the winners and losers — and can we expect any blue birds?

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Private equity
      Private markets have become an escape from reality

      There will be nowhere to hide in the tight money era

      The face of a man with peaking out from behind his hands as a line chart zigzags downwards
    • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
      Global Economy
      The easy money era is over but world leaders have not got the memo

      Free-spending governments are being punished if they don’t abandon unorthodox policy

      Workers carry oranges at a fruit market in Lahore
    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      Arabian Gulf States
      The Gulf is partying while it can

      But the joy of hosting the World Cup in an oil and property boom will not last unless productivity improves

      People are pictured in a restaurant in Doha
    • Monday, 7 November, 2022
      US economy
      Economists see recession coming, so maybe it’s not

      Markets have a better record at predicting downturns — but sometimes the inevitable never happens

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Chinese economy
      China’s economy will not overtake the US until 2060, if ever

      The consensus that Beijing can achieve whatever target it sets ignores the pace of slowdown in recent years 

      A worker changes reels in a woven bag factory
    • Monday, 10 October, 2022
      US Dollar
      Biden should act now on the wrecking-ball dollar

      Washington could help to weaken the currency without undermining the Fed’s effort to contain US inflation

      Four US $100 bills laid out side by side
    • Monday, 26 September, 2022
      Global Economy
      The seven economic wonders of a worried world

      A few countries stand out as hopeful exceptions to prevailing pessimism

      A worker stands on a crane at a construction site in Hanoi, Vietnam, which is a case study in communism that works
    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2022
      Transcript
      Is a post-dollar world coming?

      Ukraine makes dramatic gains in the war with Russia

    • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
      Artificial intelligence
      Robots need to move faster to save the world

      Alarmists say AI will steal jobs, but underlying demographic trends foretell continuing worker shortages

      Like previous innovations, robots kill off some professions and create others
    • Sunday, 28 August, 2022
      US Dollar
      A post-dollar world is coming

      The currency may look strong but its weaknesses are mounting

      Dollar bills laid out
    • Monday, 15 August, 2022
      Indian economy
      At 75, India is finally ready to join the global party

      With its entrepreneurial spirit and an increasingly efficient welfare state, the country can thrive in a slowing world

      Illustration of a map of India with people climbing in and out of hole made by a graph that tracks its coastline
    • Monday, 18 July, 2022
      Innovation
      Here’s how to solve the productivity paradox

      A culture of government bailouts and constant stimulus is a barrier to technological innovation and dynamism

      Illustration of a businessman looking overwhelmed, with adial over his head depicting low productivity with the arrow showing red on the left hand side of the spectrum
    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      Emerging markets
      Emerging markets are in better shape than you think

      Dour commentary misses reform in the largest developing economies since the taper tantrum last sent investors fleeing

      Roger Moore, as James Bond, wearing a tuxedo and standing on a bridge with his pistol drawn
    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Chinese business & finance
      Why China is not rising as a financial superpower

      Beijing must find the confidence to lift capital controls and make the renminbi fully convertible

      A screen showing the latest economy and stock exchange updates, in Shanghai last week
    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      How to invest now?

      And peering into private debt

    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      Equities
      There is another act to come in this market drama

      History shows that a pause in losses is usually followed by a further spiral downwards

      Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      Shadow banking
      The threat shadow banks pose to the global economy

      This realm beyond regulators is where the next crisis will arise

      Apartments in Toronto, Ontario. Canada is one of the countries suffering from higher mortgage costs
    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      Technology sector
      Thanks but no Faangs — the folly of investing in acronyms

      Bundling together countries and companies in catchy but superficial concepts was always bound to end in tears

    • Monday, 25 April, 2022
      French competitiveness
      The fat French state is about to get fatter

      Voters are discontented but have no appetite for reforms that would tackle what really ails the nation

      Parisians protest at Place de la Republique against the election of Emmanuel Macron for a second term as president
    • Monday, 11 April, 2022
      Russian politics
      How Putin aged into a classic oil state autocrat

      From an economic perspective, the Russian leader is a universal type

      Russian President Vladimir Putin flanked by guards in the Kremlin’s Alexander Hall
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