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Global Econ Puzzle Awaits New President

Posted Jun 27, 08 10:42 AM CDT in World,  Business,  Opinion,  Politics 

(Newser) – Whether it's John McCain or Barack Obama, the next president will confront a global economic landscape unlike anything his predecessor confronted, write Robert Hormats and Jim O'Neill. In an op-ed for the Financial Times, the two Goldman Sachs executives explain that the new president's greatest challenge will be the rise of emerging economies, whose share of world GDP has doubled since George W. Bush took office.

The so-called BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India and China—hold the key to America's economic future, especially as the US's low savings rate and overreliance on credit force the nation to borrow heavily from the developing world. Now that "the world’s economies have reached a new level of interdependence," the next president will need to invest lots of capital, both political and economic, to keep the BRICs happy.

Source Financial Times (UK)

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The building on Broad Street in New York's Financial District that houses brokerage firm Goldman Sachs. Two Goldman executives write that the next American president faces a tall economic order.   (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)
John McCain and Barack Obama in 2007. The next American president will face a serious challenge in the global economy.   (AP Photo/Dennis Cook, File)
The next American president will face a serious challenge in the global economy.   (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
The next American president will face a serious challenge in the global economy.   (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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