I just got around to reading and digesting Gillian Tett‘s phenomenal recounting of the BRIC saga from the Financial Times this past Friday. Tett does a great job getting to the origins of where the research team got its idea to conceptualize the investment theme and then traces its global spread from finance to consumer…
Jim O’Neill
The Biggest Market Call of the Decade
Yes, I’m about to give props to Goldman. Deal with it. The single biggest, most profitable market call of the last decade was made in 2001 by economist Jim O’Neill, then working at none other than Goldman Sachs. The call was made in Global Economics Paper #66 aka “Building Better Global Economic BRICs” and it…
