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Meet our GWM Chief Economist, Paul Donovan
Meet our GWM Chief Economist, Paul Donovan
I am the Chief Economist of UBS Global Wealth Management. I believe passionately that economics is something everyone can and should understand. We all make economic decisions all of the time. The problem is that economists tend to wrap economics in jargon and equations. We do not need to do that. It is my job to help people realise what they probably already know – by developing and explaining the UBS economic view in a clear way. To do this, I publish research (most of which you can find here), make short videos, and appear in various print and broadcast media.
I tend to think of myself as a political economist, not a mathematical economist. I get very excited about lots of things in economics. Diversity, inflation, education, trade, inequality, sustainability and social change are some of the topics I am very enthusiastic about (to the point of writing books about them).
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- What did trade taxes do? (14 December 2020)About Does oil matter?
- Is business booming? (01 September 2020)About Does oil matter?
- Where is inflation going? (16 June 2020)About Was 2019 better than we think?
- Will spending surge? (28 May 2020)
- Can debt be inflated away? (07 May 2020)
- What do bubbles mean? (10 November, 2017)
- Does anyone know what is happening? (30 March 2020)About Does anyone know what is happening?
- Can GDP be saved? (23 March 2020)About Can GDP be saved?
- Does oil matter? (09 January 2020)About Was 2019 better than we think?
- Was 2019 better than we think? (11 December 2019)About Was 2019 better than we think?
- Is the trade conflict hurting less? (31 October 2019)About Does anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice do more damage than we think?
- Does anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice do more damage than we think? (08 October 2019)About Does anti-LGBTQ+ prejudice do more damage than we think?
- What's happening everywhere else? (28 January 2019)
- Are trade taxes changing trade? (21 November 2018)
- Are bond traders better than economists? (01 August 2018)
- Pride and Prejudice, and Economists (27 June 2018)
- Have we hit peak trade? (09 April 2018)
- How hard do workers work? (14 February 2018)
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