Authors:

  • Niall Ferguson

Excerpt

‘Chimerica’ and the Rule of Central Bankers. Niall Ferguson, August 27, 2015, Opinion, "Two years after the taper tantrum, this was the week of the Chimerican chill. Economist Moritz Schularick and I coined the word Chimerica in these pages in 2007, combining China and America, to describe the symbiotic relationship increasingly dominating the world economy. That is even truer now, as the past several days have shown. For the first time in financial history, a sneeze in Shanghai gave Wall Street—and almost every other stock market in the world—a cold." Link