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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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    Delays in dealing with fiscal pressures risk further damage to household consumption, corporate investment and overall growth

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  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
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    Central bank needs to mix playing defence with going on the offensive with a new policy framework and improved communication

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    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
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    US tariff shock underscores the instability of a shifting world

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

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  • 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

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  • 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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    Russia’s President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during the extended format meeting of the Brics summit in Kazan
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  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
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    The central bank’s highly reactive policy approach of recent years amplifies financial volatility

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  • 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

    Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
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    Five economic areas the incoming US president needs to tackle

    New administration must find a way to maintain growth while repositioning the economy

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

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    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
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
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    Ironically, Jay Powell’s speech has encouraged markets to run even faster and with more confidence

    A television station broadcasts US Federal Reserve Chair Chair Jerome Powell speaking in Jackson Hole
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
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  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
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    Why I am now optimistic that economies can break out of a rut

    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
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
    What the Fed should put on the Jackson Hole agenda

    Central bank should use the summer to address issues key to America’s economic wellbeing and global financial stability

    Jay Powell at last year’s Jackson Hole meeting
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
    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
    Markets InsightMonetary policy
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    The European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Markets InsightFederal Reserve
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    Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    Middle East war
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    While the reaction to the latest hostilities has been tame, the global economy is too fragile for a new crisis

    Protesters inTehran on Friday after Israel’s retaliatory strike on Iran
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