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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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    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      US economy
      America’s mini economic miracle may be fleeting

      Biden-era spending has turbocharged growth — but the resulting debts may bring pain

      Close up of the eagle sculputre on the facade of the Federal Reserve building in Washington
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      Chinese economy
      Have we reached peak pessimism on China?

      The consensus now sees the country stagnating long term, but is missing more dramatic short-term scenarios

      Workers install aluminum alloy formwork for house construction at a construction site
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      Indian economy
      What India needs is more cricket and less Bollywood

      As the Indian Premier League adapts to the digital age, Hindi films lose fans thanks to stale scripts and ageing stars

      Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in Pathaan
    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      US & Canadian companies
      What’s wrong with tech giants riding the AI wave

      It is dysfunctional for the same companies to dominate another innovation surge

      A 1960 mainframe computer
    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      US economy
      The trouble with American exceptionalism

      Deepening deficits now make the US one of the most fiscally irresponsible nations

      Three ironworker twist rebar for a barrier wall during the construction of a new bridge
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Emerging markets
      Here’s a tale of economic ‘resilience’ — but it’s not the one you think

      Emerging markets are proving less vulnerable to rising interest rates than many analysts feared

      A spice and grain market in New Delhi, India
    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      Billionaires
      Billionaires find big wins in big government

      Analysis of the mega-rich shows barely a dent in their fortunes or numbers

      A protester holds up a burning firework outside the LVMH headquarters
    • Sunday, 4 June, 2023
      Luxury goods
      Europe’s new success stories are built on high luxury, not high tech

      This raises hard questions for the continent in an age of vast wealth inequality and slow growth 

      An advertisement for Christian Dior on the first day of the winter sales in Paris in January
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Chinese economy
      ‘Boomy’ talk about the Chinese economy is a charade

      Wall Street forecasts are now even more optimistic than Beijing’s unreachable growth target

      A shopping centre in Beijing
    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      Indian politics & policy
      An economic miracle in India

      The state of Karnataka shows that capitalism and democracy still have a future

      A market in Bengaluru, the state of Karnataka’s capital city
    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      Global Economy
      What strong gold says about the weak dollar

      The US has been weaponising its currency — but that comes with a cost

      Gold bars sit stacked
    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      US & Canadian companies
      Why America’s big companies keep getting bigger

      The beneficiaries of post-crisis rescues are established companies — this is not how capitalism is supposed to work

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      Global Economy
      The unstoppable rise of government rescues

      A maximalist culture of bailouts and state support is bloating and thereby destabilising the global financial system

      Crowds and police outside a bank on New York’s East Side, with Jay Powell of the Federal Reserve inset
    • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
      Global Economy
      Three global cities are pulling ahead since the peak of the pandemic

      Miami, Dubai and Singapore boom by welcoming those chased out of rival international hubs

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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
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