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Things can only get better for the UK
By Jim O'Neill - Jan 09,2023
LONDON — A friend recently forwarded me an e-mail from a client who was bemoaning the state of the United Kingdom and questioning whether it still met the standards of a G-7 country.
The World Cup and the world economy
By Jim O'Neill - Nov 26,2022
LONDON  —  The 22nd World Cup is under way, but who at the beginning of this century would have thought it might be hosted by tiny Qatar?
What Liz Truss must do
By Jim O'Neill - Sep 07,2022
LONDON  —  With Conservative Party members having chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss to succeed Boris Johnson as their leader, the United Kingdom will have its third prime minister since voters decided in June 2016 to leave the European Union.
The dollar rules
By Jim O'Neill - Jul 12,2022
LONDON  —  The first half of 2022 has been traumatic. Equity markets have suffered one of their worst six-month periods ever. Government bonds are undergoing a rare, significant decline.
The end of the ‘global savings glut’?
By Jim O'Neill - Apr 10,2022
LONDON  —  In 2005, Ben Bernanke, then a governor of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) Board, introduced the idea of a global savings glut to explain why the United States ran persistent current-account deficits.
A bad year for markets?
By Jim O'Neill - Jan 15,2022
LONDON  —  Last month, I identified what I saw as the big issues of 2022, noting that I could not recall a time when there were so many sources of uncertainty, both known and unknown.
The big issues for 2022
By Jim O'Neill - Dec 11,2021
LONDON — With the calendar year drawing to a close, the parlor game of pretending to know what will happen in the next 12 months has begun. Yet when it comes to 2022 (and beyond), I am not sure whether it is worth even pretending.
How to make de-carbonisation economically sustainable
By Jim O'Neill - Nov 14,2021
LONDON — As all eyes were on the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow this month, there has been ample media coverage of youth protests, high-level diplomacy and new agreements to reduce methane and protect the world’s forests.
Will the BRICS ever grow up?
By Jim O'Neill - Sep 20,2021
LONDON — Having created the BRIC acronym to capture the collective potential of Brazil, Russia, India, and China to influence the world economy, I now must ask a rather awkward question: When is that influence going to show up?
The Taliban and the dollar
By Jim O'Neill - Aug 26,2021
LONDON — This month marks the 50th anniversary of the end the Bretton Woods system, when US President Richard Nixon suspended the US dollar’s convertibility into gold and allowed it to float.

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