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Mohamed El-Erian

Mohamed El-Erian is President of Queens’ College, Cambridge University, an adviser to Allianz and Gramercy and a best-selling author. He previously served as chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco, deputy director of the IMF and president and CEO of Harvard Management Company. He is the Rene M. Kern Practice Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mohamed is also a director of Under Armour.
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    Central bank needs to mix playing defence with going on the offensive with a new policy framework and improved communication

    The Federal Reserve building
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Markets InsightGlobal Economy
    US tariff policy accelerates deeper structural changes

    Unusual swings in markets and consensus economic narratives point to longer-term forces

    Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
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    Untangling the spaghetti bowl of tariffs

    Public disagreement within the Trump administration has grown over the past two weeks

    US President Donald Trump
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    Markets InsightGlobal Economy
    US tariff shock underscores the instability of a shifting world

    The global economy is on a bumpy journey to an unknown destination

    A trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
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    What lies behind the dramatic shift in markets

    The sudden change in investors’ growth expectations for the three largest economies is upending many consensus trades

    The New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street
  • Friday, 14 February, 2025
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    The mounting risks to US exceptionalism

    Trump’s fire hose of policy changes could make companies more cautious on spending and investment

    Hands of Donald Trump signing a paper
  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
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    ‘Global south’ concept fuels unrealistic aspirations

    Shifts in global economic and financial order are making this concept less effective

    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the extended format meeting of the Brics summit in Kazan
  • Monday, 20 January, 2025
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    Donald Trump
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    The central bank’s highly reactive policy approach of recent years amplifies financial volatility

    Jay Powell speaks at a press conference
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
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    An extraordinary global economy will require extraordinary agility

    Policymakers need to adjust their approaches including through pre-emptive negotiations with the incoming US administration

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  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
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  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
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    Buying of the precious metal reflects rising interest in alternatives to the dollar-based financial system

    A worker lifts a gold bullion bar from a conveyor machine in South Africa
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
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    The Fed’s insurance policy

    Big interest rate cut is yet another evolution in paradigm of liquidity dominance

    A screen on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange displays a news conference with Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell on September 18
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Markets InsightUS interest rates
    The big question is what comes next after the Fed’s rate cut

    Bond investors could easily be caught off guard if liquidity conditions fail to loosen significantly

    The seal of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is displayed on a window at the Federal Reserve building in Washington, DC.
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
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  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
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    For the first time in two decades, the potential for a step up in western growth is real and promising

    Jobseekers at a career fair in North Carolina, US
  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
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    Central bank should use the summer to address issues key to America’s economic wellbeing and global financial stability

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
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    Fed needs to cut interest rates sooner rather than later

    Delay by US central bank in easing monetary policy could jeopardise soft economic landing

    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
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    Europe may soon discover the limits of decoupling on rates

    Monetary policy in advanced countries is diverging in a manner that was thought highly unlikely just a few months ago

    The European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
    Powell’s dovishness is right, but not for the reasons he believes

    Fed is unlikely to get to its 2% inflation target unless it is willing to impose major damage on the economy

    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Middle East war
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    Protesters inTehran on Friday after Israel’s retaliatory strike on Iran
  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
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    The shift towards more opportunistic and tactical positions is risky

    Pyramids
  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
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    A turning point in central banking

    Last week’s monetary policy moves mark a shift away from strict inflation targeting

    Federal Reserve building
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Markets InsightChinese business & finance
    Foreign investors are right to see China as a trade more than a long-term bet

    Country faces clear and present danger of falling into middle-income trap

    Pedestrians carry umbrellas while walking through the Guomao central business district in Beijing
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