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Chief Economist at Morgan Stanley
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In the early 2000s, while most analysts celebrated China’s export boom and U.S. consumption surge as mutually reinforcing, Roach stood apart, mapping the dangerous feedback loop between Beijing’s currency policy, Washington’s fiscal deficits, and Wall Street’s appetite for yield. He coined the term 'savings glut' not as an abstract concept but as a diagnostic tool, tracing how excess Asian reserves flooded into U.S. Treasuries, suppressing long-term rates and inflating asset bubbles. His 2005 testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, where he warned that 'the global imbalance is unsustainable not because it’s large, but because it’s unbalanced in structure', became a touchstone for macroeconomists tracking systemic fragility. Unlike peers who focused on monetary transmission or labor markets, Roach insisted on the geopolitical architecture of finance: how capital controls in emerging economies, dollar dependency, and asymmetric adjustment mechanisms created lopsided risk. His warnings weren’t about imminent collapse, but about delayed reckoning, where imbalances don’t resolve smoothly, but fracture along fault lines no model had calibrated for.
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