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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.
  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Currencies
    The world’s strongest currency is also super-competitive 

    Switzerland’s success shows that a nation can revalue its way to prosperity

    A worker holds a tray of chocolates at a Lindt factory in Kilchberg, Switzerland
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    Global inequality
    Sweden: a socialist paradise overflowing with billionaires

    The country is generating the kind of wealth that raises the risk of an anti-capitalist revolt

    A luxury department store in Stockholm
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Latin America
    The one region where the traditional right is on the rise

    In Latin America, the ‘pink tide’ is running out and offering global capital new hope

    President of Argentina Javier Milei
  • Monday, 21 April, 2025
    Global Economy
    Mapping the high tariff world

    How the trade war will reorder the global economy — not burn it down

    A sign in a supermarket in Ontario urges shoppers to buy Canadian products
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    US inflation
    The Fed shouldn’t try to save the world from Trump tariffs

    Given its record, the risk is that the US central bank will do just that

    US President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order after delivering remarks on reciprocal tariffs
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    US equities
    The end of American exceptionalism goes way beyond Trump

    It has been building, and is likely to be unravelling, for a long time

    A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Unhedged Podcast22 min listen
    The case for China

    Are Chinese stocks really “uninvestable”?

  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Global Economy
    The new economic stars born through crisis 

    Financial stress is forcing reform and recovery in many overlooked countries 

    Desalter tanks and pipework at the Dangote Industries Ltd. oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the Ibeju Lekki district of Lagos, Nigeria
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Chinese business & finance
    Is China investable again?

    It always was — at the right price and for those with eyes wide open to the economic downside

    Chinese President Xi Jinping, center attends a symposium on private enterprises
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Markets
    Why speculators are still running wild when money is no longer free

    Something even bigger than AI and the Trump effect is at work

    Customers and bystanders form a line outside a Silicon Valley Bank branch in 2023
  • Sunday, 26 January, 2025
    Global trade
    The world is moving on to trade without the US

    Many nations have been responding to Trump tariffs not by retaliating but by courting other trade partners

    Aerial view of a tiny tugboat helping to guide a shop loaded with freight containers
  • Monday, 13 January, 2025
    Emerging markets
    Where voters don’t want to throw the incumbents out — and why

    The global rebellion against those in power does not extend to the developing world

    India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi
  • Monday, 6 January, 2025
    The Big Read
    Ruchir Sharma: top 10 trends for 2025

    Projections about the coming year assume market shifts will be dictated by Donald Trump. But the global economy is unlikely to revolve around the US

    Montage image of a handshake, Trump’s face, skyscrapers, a US Federal Reserve System logo and a peso coin
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Global Economy
    How ‘the mother of all bubbles’ will pop

    It’s time to bet against American exceptionalism

    The ‘Fearless Girl’ sculpture stands in front of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    US economy
    The mother of all bubbles

    The US has never been so overhyped, relative to the rest of the world

    Pedestrians walk past the Charging Bull statue on Wall Street in New York
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Trump’s victory represents a historic protest vote, no more and no less

    Antipathy to big government and big business has helped spur the rise of a third force in US politics

    President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak at a meeting of the House GOP conference
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The US economic boom is a mirage

    Its lopsided, brittle quality helps explain why so many Americans will cast votes in anger

    New York City’s Times Square photographed in the early evening.
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Americas economy
    The populist left is holding back Latin America

    Economies are facing another ‘lost decade’

    A man rides through a procession at a political rally
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Global Economy
    ‘No more bailouts’: the missing US campaign slogan

    There is a populist idea that would be both good economics and good politics

    Silicon Valley Bank customers wait in line at SVBs headquarters in Santa Clara, California
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    It’s no longer glorious to get rich in China — it’s dangerous

    Why no one wants to be the nation’s top tycoon any more

    Jack Ma, CEO of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    US economy
    Make homes affordable again

    The unreachable American dream of ownership could be a decisive issue in the presidential contest

    An aerial view of a suburban American town
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Emerging markets
    The world should take notice — the rest are rising again

    An emerging market revival has begun, with dramatic global implications

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a Wren in flight off the back of a Bald Eagl.
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Is Trump the king of deregulation?

    No, but he was a less costly regulator than his rivals

    Matt Kenyon illustration of Donald Trump pulling his red tie around him from both directions towards his head.
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    World
    Capitalism is in worse shape in Europe

    The UK and EU are falling behind the US for a reason: overprotective government

    Attendees queue to enter the Job Messe career fair at the entrance of the Olympiastadion in Berlin
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Markets
    Why markets like to see new political faces

    Amid the confusion of recent elections, here is one factor with real economic impact

    Montage of photos of Narendra Modi, Claudia Sheinbaum and Cyril Ramaphosa
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