Lord Jim O'Neill

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The Rest Is Money · 302. Can the West bridge the gap with China, India and the BRICs+ nations? · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

And so, of course, and this does and this comes back to a sort of deeper philosophical question.

answer to you of the underlying question.

More and more of these things, particularly as it relates to changing economic weight, at some point in the very unpredictable long-term future, the dollar will not dominate.

In the same way that many, I think, quite a few decades after we ceased to be the most important country in the world, the pound suddenly stopped being the currency that mattered.

And at some point in the future, that will be the case with the dollar.

But as you pointed out in the way you asked it, it's certainly not today.

And it probably won't be anytime soon.

But we will only know after it's happened, in my view.

I'll give you two forms.

Of the eight papers we've commissioned...

from what I can tell, the fastest progress is in four that, coincidentally to me, seem to be the ones that are so genuinely valid for 8 billion people.

And that is infectious diseases.

We have a bunch of people of the Duke School of Health, Duke University in the US, who are leading it.

But as a sign of how we want to guide them to operate,

We only ask a Western university to be part of it if they will make sure they have a non-Western university as their partner.

And in Duke's case, they beautifully got a very important person from a South African university, a woman who was actually at the WHO, but an academic who was one of the joint signatures to the pandemic treaty, but also some people from India.

And these guys are experts on the right way for the world to try and have a better warning system about looming infectious disease threats.

And that is huge progress to benefit everyone if aspects of it get adopted.

Second thing I would say, and I'm saying it the week where I interviewed Greg Jackson.

Listening to Greg, it is quite clear to me that this seemingly impossible challenge of having lower energy for consumers and saving the planet is actually pretty doable.

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