Economist and Author
Economist and Author
About
George Magnus
George Magnus is an independent economist and commentator, an Associate at the China Centre, Oxford University, and an adviser to some asset management companies.
He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, Prospect Magazine and other written media, and appears regularly on BBC TV and radio, Bloomberg TV and other outlets.
"George Magnus does not look like a prophet. Yet this is the man widely acknowledged to have predicted that the US sub-prime mortgage crisis would trigger a global recession."
- Josephine Moulds, The Daily Telegraph
- Josephine Moulds, The Daily Telegraph
George Magnus's Viewpoints Blog
Latest Articles
- How the West got China so catastrophically wrong
Fifty years of encouraging closer economic links with Beijing has proved misguided Read more →
- Sinostan and the Sino-Russian axis
China has opted at least for now to make its bed with Putin. But at some point, Chinese policymakers will have to weigh its politics-versus-economics contradiction more carefully, and may come to see Putin as a fly in the ointment of their own interests and ambition. Read more →
- China’s ‘Two Sessions’ paper over cracks in a troubled economy
The ‘Two Sessions’ held in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in April sought to guarantee a smooth glide path towards the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s 20th Party Congress, scheduled for later this year. But instability rules almost everywhere.... Read more →
- China Is Facing a Big Contradiction Between its Politics and its Economics
- U.S.-China Decoupling Has Already Begun
The idea that decoupling isn't happening or is too complicated to happen isn't borne out by what's going on or coming down the track Read more →
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Here he is again. Yesterday in fact. Obviously a China lifer who’s now been at the kool aid for far too long and do… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Nice thread about the hazards in trying to control China’s property funk w/o more price decline.i agree state secto… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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@WongDouglas @JKynge The whole @JKynge story is good to read though… important points raised
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@t0nyyates Think poor Danny had got a ball bearing out of position here. You can have a view on monetary policy w/o the invective.
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