Lord Jim O'Neill

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Business Daily · The BRIC architect's warning for the West · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

And if he carries on down that path or is the person that follows him, what will happen is the US will end up with higher inflation, weaker economic growth, much less relationship economically with other countries that have been traditionally allies ever since the First World War.

And the US will actually weaken its position in the rest of the world, not just politically, but also economically.

And I often think the US seems to have an obsession with being the biggest.

But you're never going to remain the biggest when there's other countries that have at least four times as many people as you and have their own ambitions.

So I agree with the latter part of your question.

I don't agree with the former.

I think actually much of the West could do with copying some of the success that China's had on government investment.

Here in the United Kingdom, it's a hot topic of what is probably going to be yet another change of political leadership.

Andy Burnham's guys are clearly focusing on trying to boost public sector investment spending.

And to help grow productivity and prosperity, I think that's right.

Where I agree with you is the second part of your question.

In China's case, partly because of their own very high savings rates, this turns out into helping even stronger export growth than they had before, despite the US tariffs.

And that is not sustainable, in my opinion.

So at some point, I think that model is going to have to change for China.

So in the latter part of COVID, I was asked to join a commission, think of ways we could prevent such a catastrophic fallout of when the next disease hits.

And it was led by the ex-Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti.

And one of the ideas that Mario and I dreamt up was for something that we called the Global Finance and Health Board.

And it was adopted as an idea by the G7.

And here's the point of the story.

The BRICS actually stopped it.

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