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Mohamed El-Erian: El-Erian to become president of Queens’ College Cambridge Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser at Allianz and a former investment chief of bond giant Pimco, has been named as the next president of Cambridge university’s Queens’ College.	Tue, May 28, 2019	Financial Times
Carl Benedikt Frey: Covid-19 Will Only Increase Automation Anxiety Historically, depressions have inflamed automation anxiety. Wars, in contrast, often end them. In the US, the machinery debates of the 1920s and 30s began with labour secretary James J. Davis’s famous 1927 speech.	Tue, Apr 21, 2020	Financial Times
Dambisa Moyo : The Precarious Global Debt Picture A critical issue policymakers need to address urgently is the amount of debt plaguing the UK, the US and the global economy, and the impact the growing status of China as creditor to both the west and the developing world will have on that.	Wed, Oct 28, 2020	Financial Times
John Taylor: The new IMF head should not be dictated by the tired, old, EU order It is not easy to predict where financial stresses that require alleviation by the IMF will emerge next, or what form the mitigation strategies will take. Almost certainly, though, after a period of extremely easy liquidity and associated leveraging in financial markets, the call on IMF advice and resources will be greater than in the past. Its support will have to take new forms. It will also have to sell economic-policy packages to a governing body from an increasingly multipolar world.	Sun, Aug 11, 2019	Financial Times
William Rhodes: China’s impending Minsky moment Two years ago, Zhou Xiaochuan, then China’s central bank governor, told a press conference at the 19th Communist party Congress in Beijing that too many procyclical factors in the economy and excessive optimism risked generating “accumulating contradictions that could lead to the so-called Minsky moment”.	Sun, Dec 29, 2019	Financial Times
Afsaneh Beschloss: The Next World Bank President Has a Huge Task on Their Hands "From climate change to reconstruction, the institution has failed to tackle a range of urgent challenges," writes BWC board member Afsaneh Beschloss. Whoever succeeds Malpass will do much to decide whether this fabled institution ultimately perishes or survives, she argues.	Wed, Feb 22, 2023	Financial Times
Colm Kelleher: The EU’s post-Brexit finance ambitions miss an important point Although the British political system appears to have staved off a no-deal Brexit for now, London still faces an existential threat.	Tue, Apr 23, 2019	Financial Times
Kevin Gallagher: China must calibrate overseas lending towards Paris climate goals With the demise of US leadership on climate change, China enters this week’s Conference of the Parties to the Paris climate agreement poised to take the mantle as the world’s leader on energy and climate change.	Thu, Dec 13, 2018	Financial Times
Mohamed El-Erian: A Divided Electorate Spells Trouble for the US Economy In the wake of the US presidential vote, there are three things that are clear at this stage that spell trouble for the US economy, and well beyond that.	Wed, Nov 4, 2020	Financial Times
Mohamed El-Erian: Fed Meeting Turns Into a Test of Its Inflation Narrative Central bank should not take comfort from the bond market.	Mon, Jun 14, 2021	Financial Times