Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of the global investment company PIMCO, with approximately $2 trillion in assets under management. He previously worked at the International Monetary Fund and the Harvard Management Company, the entity that manages Harvard University's endowment. He was named one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. His book When Markets Collide was the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Book of the Year and was named a best book of 2008 by the Economist.
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Commentaries by Mohamed A. El-Erian
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The Japanese Experiment
NEWPORT BEACH – After years of tweaks, Japan has now initiated a major shift in its policy paradigm, with reactions ranging from great optim…
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The Global Growth Quest
NEWPORT BEACH – What is the most urgent economic priority shared by countries as diverse as Brazil, China, Cyprus, France, Greece, Iceland, …
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Global Markets' Time Factor
BARCELONA – In recent months, the dichotomy between booming financial markets, on the one hand, and sluggish economies and dysfunctional pol…
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Transatlantic Trade’s Transformative Potential
NEWPORT BEACH – After instant and seemingly coordinated fanfare in Europe and the United States, the proposal for a European Union-US free-t…
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Egypt’s Economic Siren
NEWPORT BEACH – Facing a turbulent political situation and recurrent street protests, Egypt’s political elite would be well advised to focus…
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Beggar Thy Currency Or Thy Self?
NEWPORT BEACH – Not many countries nowadays seek a strong exchange rate; a few, including systemically important ones, are already actively …
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The Political Economy of 2013
NEWPORT BEACH – Watching America’s leaders scramble in the closing days of 2012 to avoid a “fiscal cliff” that would plunge the economy into…
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Farewell to Inflation Targeting?
NEWPORT BEACH – In a four-day period in mid-December, three seemingly unrelated developments suggested that modern central banking is in the…
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Europe’s Economic War of Attrition
NEWPORT BEACH – I was nine years old when Egypt entered what became known as its “war of attrition” with Israel. During this period of “no w…
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The Other Financial Crisis
NEWPORT BEACH – Two variants of financial crisis continue to wreak havoc on Western economies, fueling joblessness and poverty: the one that…
The Japanese Experiment
Kazumi Funahashi: Japan is not experiencing a "paradigm shift." This is just an intesification of what Japan has done in the past "qarter century"; pour more money into the market. I agree with the article that Jap…
The Japanese Experiment
Craig Hardt: Great article Mr. El-Erian. It would seem that after the first quarter of Japan's policy resulted in better-than-expected growth (3.5 %) Abenomics may be working. My question, however, is how much of …