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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, 3 November, 2025
    Books
    Books, malls and cars: where the physical world still rules

    Many consumers are resisting, even turning back the digital revolution

    Two young people seen from behind looking at books surrounded by shelves of books in a bookstore
  • Monday, 20 October, 2025
    Markets
    Why gold and stocks are partying together

    These booms are connected, but not in the way you may have heard

    Four gold wafers of different sizes from Galeri 24 are displayed, each marked with weight and "FINE GOLD 999.9."
  • Monday, 6 October, 2025
    US economy
    America is now one big bet on AI

    It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

    The facade of the New York Stock Exchange with its columns and pediment sculptures, and a large American flag hanging nearby
  • Monday, 22 September, 2025
    Asia-Pacific economy
    How south-east Asia lost its way

    Indonesia is just the worst of the worst in the world’s weakest regional market

    Prabowo Subianto stands in front of a backdrop with red and white stripes before delivering his annual address.
  • Monday, 8 September, 2025
    Federal Reserve
    Why the Fed should not cut rates now

    Amid loose financial conditions and a bubbly market, it’s exactly the wrong time

    Jay Powell holds papers and a pen while leaving a stage, with US flags and Federal Reserve banners in the background.
  • Monday, 11 August, 2025
    Entrepreneurship
    America doesn’t have a monopoly on wealth creation

    New research shows many other countries have a booming entrepreneurial culture generating serious wealth

    Two illustrations — one of a person celebrating under their money tree while someone else kneels next to a dead tree; the other is of three flourishing money trees and two happy people
  • Monday, 28 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    What the world got wrong about tariffs

    No economy rises or falls for just one reason, even a shock as big as Trump’s trade policy

    Cars driving past the Port of Los Angeles
  • Friday, 18 July, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Is Ukraine sliding into authoritarianism?

    The eastern European country’s leader has been accused of favouring loyalists and using wartime powers against critics

  • Monday, 14 July, 2025
    Israel
    The markets are signalling a clear winner in the Middle East

    Israel’s stunning stock rally suggests the country is cementing its status as the regional economic superpower

    The Tel Aviv skyline
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    US equities
    The world is changing, the US market is not

    To date, the Trump shock is that he has had so little impact

    Illustration of a figure walking on a horizontal graph line with an asteroid hurling towards it, lightning striking it, and an explosion shaking it
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
    Chinese economy
    The myth of the suppressed Chinese consumer

    In reality, the country has the fastest household spending growth rate of the 21st century

  • 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
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