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ROBERT BLOHM (born Trenton, New Jersey) is an American-citizen and naturalized-Canadian investment banker and economist. In the 1970s began his career as an officer at half of Canada’s big-6 banks and a Citibank affiliate.
He recently lived in Mainland China for a decade where he advised the electricity and oil-&-gas industry and the government on marketization, and promoted open-economy and marketization policies in China’s print and TV media in English and Chinese. In The Wall Street Journal, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and on Fox Business Network and the BBC, he has criticized China’s post 2008 financial crisis policy reversal, and blamed the 2008 financial crisis on China’s price-subsidized excess demand for commodity imports which increased US inflation and interest rates.
He helped expand the Japanese capital market in the 1980s to Canadian governments, corporations, utilities and banks, and advised Japan’s electric and gas utilities and government on electricity industry marketization and US-style restructuring. He initiated the first exchange of personnel between Japan’s energy agency and the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. He wrote in The Wall Street Journal against excessive government control of the Japanese economy.
In the early 1990s he argued widely in the US and Canadian press against the economic feasibility of Quebec's separation from Canada, particularly in a series of opinion articles in The Wall Street Journal. He subsequently advised Quebec and Ontario on restructuring and marketizing their electric power systems.
In the later 1990s he published articles in the general and trade press against restructuring the wholesale electric industry into a single centralized spot market, and this led to collapse of the California electricity market in 2001 and abandonment of that market design by US, Canadian and Japanese regulators.
He coined the term "the internet economy" in a Wall Street Journal opinion article by that title in 1996.
Blohm is an elected member of two standing committees of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., the supranational electricity regulator, where he has helped develop risk-based standards for reliably operating the electric system in a competitive market. On February 21, 2019, he wrote an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal claiming that an all-renewables power grid is technically impossible.
Blohm holds graduate degrees in economics and finance from Columbia University and from McGill University, and an undergraduate degree in mathematics and philosophy from McGill University. He is a descendant of the historic New York house of Cooper-Hewitt through his grandmother Helen Hewitt Blohm (née Helen Bradley Hewitt).