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    Chris Giles

    Economics editor

    Chris Giles became economics editor for the Financial Times in October 2004, having previously served as a leader writer. His reporting beat covers global and UK economic affairs and he writes a UK economics column fortnightly.

    Before joining the FT as economics editor, he was an economics reporter for the BBC, worked for Ofcom, the telecommunications regulator and started his career with seven years as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Chris loves numbers.

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    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      UK Budget
      Promising tax cuts is bad economics — and politics

      The chancellor’s fiscal rules give him room for pledges that please the Conservative backbenches but there’s a big caveat

    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      The Starmer Project
      Out of luck: the bleak economic outlook that Starmer would face

      If Labour wins the next election, it is likely to encounter a much harsher environment than when it won power in 1997

    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Global Economy
      OECD chief economist calls for governments to cut fiscal support

      Clare Lombardelli says measures must now target ‘those who really need it’

    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      UK house prices
      UK house prices extend falls as mortgage repayments soar

      Rising interest rates drive drop in prices in May and highest net repayment of loans outside pandemic

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      UK Inequality
      Shift in government spending has cut UK inequality, study finds

      IFS says increase in health provision, wider access to education and introduction of university fees is behind change

    • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
      UK business & economy
      UK corporate profitability stable despite ‘greedflation’ claims

      Official data for end of 2022 supports Bank of England findings that inflation is not being driven by higher profit margins

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      UK business & economy
      Changing pensions regulations will not boost UK business investment

      The real problem is that British companies do not want to increase capital expenditure

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      UK inflation
      Gilt yields soar towards mini-Budget levels after inflation disappoints

      Despite fall to single figures, April’s consumer price inflation of 8.7% is significantly above BoE’s forecast

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      News in-depthUK inflation
      Is the UK once again the ‘sick man’ of Europe?

      Return of high inflation and slow growth draws comparisons with the 1970s — but economists say this time it is different

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      UK inflation
      BoE admits ‘very big lessons to learn’ over failure to forecast rise in inflation

      Governor Andrew Bailey admits central bank no longer following its own model when predicting price rises

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      UK public finances
      UK public borrowing rises on social security and interest payments

      Net borrowing was higher than expected at £25.6bn in April

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      UK inflation
      Britons among most gloomy on inflation prospects

      Survey finds six in 10 think it will take at least a year for cost rises to return to normal level

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      German economy
      Post-Brexit UK investments drive FDI in Germany to record level

      Berlin warns total volume set to fall in 2023 as companies turn to US on back of Inflation Reduction Act

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      News in-depthUK inflation
      BoE pins its hopes on falling inflation easing wage growth

      Headline rate set to fall sharply when April data is published on Wednesday as last year’s energy spike drops out of the figures

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Special ReportG7: Japan
      G7’s relevance cemented by G20’s dysfunction

      America has taken a shine to forum - not as a way to thrash out global solutions, but as a body of like-minded leading nations able to agree a united front

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      News in-depthGlobal inflation
      Why are central bank forecasts so wrong?

      Mistakes in forecasting the severity of price pressures lead to soul-searching among rate setters

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      UK inflation
      BoE governor admits UK economy suffering from wage-price spiral

      Andrew Bailey pledges to raise interest rates as far ‘as necessary’ to bring inflation down to 2%

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Bank of England
      BoE chief economist regrets telling Britons to accept they are poorer

      Huw Pill says ‘viral response’ has been unhelpful but maintains that it is necessary to slow spending

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      News in-depthConservative Party UK
      Sunak sticks with five pledges despite local election losses

      Many in the party want a bigger and bolder vision to capture voters’ imagination — and a better campaign machine

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      UK interest rates
      Bank of England raises interest rate to 4.5% and warns of missing inflation target

      UK borrowing costs increase to their highest level in almost 15 years

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      News in-depthUK interest rates
      BoE insists it is still winning the fight to control inflation

      Governor Andrew Bailey defends the central bank’s efforts to tame price rises

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      US economy
      US fiscal alarm bells are drowning out a deeper problem

      Behind the debt ceiling drama lies a public finances tragedy

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      UK interest rates
      Bank of England set to raise rates to highest level since 2008

      MPC meeting expected to decide on a quarter-point rise to 4.5%

    • Sunday, 7 May, 2023
      US economy
      US debt ceiling debacle adds to economists’ fears of turmoil

      Concerns grow that growth and jobs will suffer as impasse drags on in Congress

    • Friday, 28 April, 2023
      Global Economy
      Reasons to be cheerful about the global economy

      There is no room for complacency, especially about relations between the US and China, but some optimism is merited

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