Search

Byline: Ruchir Sharma The crisis has created many obstacles to growth, but also some opportunities. After 2000, globalization and surging commodity prices astronomically boosted economic growth among nations with emerging [...]

Its excellence in the computer chip market puts it at the center of the battle for global technological supremacy. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union [...]

Its excellence in the computer chip market puts it at the center of the battle for global technological supremacy. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union […]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma Government efforts to stimulate growth are lifting markets of all kinds everywhere. Many Americans will have heard stories about people fearful of the pandemic fleeing from crowded [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma The country is making autocratic capitalism work unusually well. Within days of China's announcing the first case of Covid-19, Vietnam was mobilizing to stop the spread of [...]

The country is making autocratic capitalism work unusually well. Within days of China's announcing the first case of Covid-19, Vietnam was mobilizing to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Using [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma Neither. Wall Street is not as partisan as you think. For months the S&P 500 rose this year - despite a deadly pandemic, the resulting economic devastation [...]

Neither. Wall Street is not as partisan as you think. For months the S&P 500 rose this year -- despite a deadly pandemic, the resulting economic devastation and the rise [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma During the pandemic, digital three-dimensional environments are where much of life is taking place. Even before the pandemic and the lockdowns, digital games were fast emerging as [...]

During the pandemic, digital three-dimensional environments are where much of life is taking place. Even before the pandemic and the lockdowns, digital games were fast emerging as one of the [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma It's one of the best performing assets in the world this year. That's not a great sign. Gold bugs - investors perpetually bullish on gold - have [...]

It's one of the best performing assets in the world this year. That's not a great sign. Gold bugs -- investors perpetually bullish on gold -- have long been seen [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma Hint: It's not the United States or China. Imagine a country, a major Western economic power, where the coronavirus arrived late but the government, instead of denying [...]

Hint: It's not the United States or China. Imagine a country, a major Western economic power, where the coronavirus arrived late but the government, instead of denying and delaying, acted [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma I landed in Delhi on a work trip in mid-March and just over a week later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced what was soon recognized as the [...]

I landed in Delhi on a work trip in mid-March and just over a week later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced what was soon recognized as the world's strictest lockdown. [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma It is just speeding up trends that were already underway. A crisis as life-altering as the coronavirus pandemic naturally inspires speculation about how it will change everything. [...]

It is just speeding up trends that were already underway. A crisis as life-altering as the coronavirus pandemic naturally inspires speculation about how it will change everything. But it is [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma The pandemic makes it nearly impossible in some places to social distance and to get food at the same time. Though many rich economies have ground to [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma This once-in-a-century pandemic is hitting a world economy saddled with record levels of debt. Though the Federal Reserve moved over the weekend to slash rates and buy [...]

This once-in-a-century pandemic is hitting a world economy saddled with record levels of debt. Though the Federal Reserve moved over the weekend to slash rates and buy treasuries, markets around [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma If the past is any guide, the hit to the global economy and markets should be relatively brief - but that's a big if. The big surprise [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma To outsiders, China may seem like a surveillance state. But tech has fueled growth and helped stave off recession. Landing in Shanghai recently, I found myself in [...]

Byline: Ruchir [...]

Economic forecasters got the 2010s wrong. What will the next decade bring? After the turn of the millennium, the United States suffered its weakest decade of economic growth in the [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma Forget Scandinavia. Switzerland is richer and yet has a surprisingly equal wealth distribution. Like many progressive intellectuals, Bernie Sanders traces his vision of economic paradise not to [...]

Byline: Ruchir Sharma Markets are amoral and won't complain about autocratic behavior if it produces economic growth. Wall Street has long existed as a parallel universe where leaders cast by [...]

Markets are amoral and won't complain about autocratic behavior if it produces economic growth. Wall Street has long existed as a parallel universe where leaders cast by critics in the [...]