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Mohamed A. El-Erian

Mohamed A. El-Erian

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Mohamed A. El-Erian, President of Queens’ College at the University of Cambridge, is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse (Random House, 2016) and a co-author (with Gordon Brown, Michael Spence, and Reid Lidow) of Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World (Simon & Schuster, 2023).

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  1. Once Again, It Was the Economy, Stupid
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    Once Again, It Was the Economy, Stupid

    Nov 14, 2024 Mohamed A. El-Erian explains how and why Democrats failed to connect with US voters’ pocketbook realities.

  2. Toward a Fifth World Order
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Oct 21, 2024 Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.

  3. How to Judge the New British Government’s First Budget
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    How to Judge the New British Government’s First Budget

    Oct 17, 2024 Mohamed A. El-Erian lists four criteria for assessing the chancellor's attempt to meet a long list of unrealistic demands.

  4. Analytical Volatility Is Worse than Market Whiplash
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    Analytical Volatility Is Worse than Market Whiplash

    Aug 30, 2024 Mohamed A. El-Erian considers why economic forecasters have been responding so dramatically to each data release.

  5. Beware of the Fed’s Contrived Consensus
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    Beware of the Fed’s Contrived Consensus

    Aug 8, 2024 Mohamed A. El-Erian thinks the US central bank could learn something from the Bank of England's more transparent process.

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    Trump’s Best Hope for Peace Is to Support Ukraine

    Tatyana Deryugina, et al. warn that trying to appease Putin could cast the American president-elect as a modern-day Neville Chamberlain.
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    Should Ukraine Have Nuclear Weapons?

    Slavoj Žižek dismisses the idea that firing Western missiles at Russian targets represents a dangerous escalation.
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    The End of the Liberal West

    Joschka Fischer considers what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for Europe and the post-war world order.
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    Trump’s Inflationary Triple Threat

    Maurice Obstfeld

    Contrary to the claims of techno-libertarians like Elon Musk, independent central banks have a decades-long record of successfully controlling inflation. Yet, as the Federal Reserve’s credibility and oversight capabilities become more critical than ever, US President-elect Donald Trump’s policies threaten to undermine them.

     warns that the incoming administration’s agenda would weaken the Fed and destabilize the financial system.
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    What Will Trump Do About China?

    US President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to take a confrontational approach to China, with tariffs as his weapon of choice. But unless his administration adopts a measured approach, his plans may end up harming American businesses and consumers, undermining US democracy, or even leading to military confrontation.

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    The Big Picture

    PS editors
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    Human Progress in the Trump Era

    Tawakkol Karman, et al. propose ways to foster a culture of cooperation at a time of rising conflict and democratic erosion.
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    Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion Fiscal Fantasy

    Jeffrey Frankel dives into the incoming US administration’s absurd claim that fresh tax cuts will not increase the deficit.
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    The Deal Trump Should Offer China

    Todd G. Buchholz proposes that the incoming US administration push for a debt write-off and market access instead of tariffs.

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