Dinny McMahon
Fellow at MacroPolo
Dinny McMahon spent ten years as a financial journalist in China, including six years in Beijing at The Wall Street Journal, and four years with Dow Jones Newswires in Shanghai. After leaving The Wall Street Journal, he accepted a fellowship at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where he wrote China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans, and the End of the Chinese Miracle. He is currently a Fellow at MacroPolo, a think tank in Chicago, where he writes 'The Cleanup,' a regular deep-dive into aspects of China's efforts to reform its financial system.
May 31, 2018
This century is supposed to be China’s century, the result of forty years of hard-won prosperity on the back of tough-minded reform and sacrifice. That still might happen, but the outcome rides heavily on whether a new generation of leaders are able to resurrect the magic of China’s economic exceptionalism.