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    Chris Giles

    Economics Commentator

    Chris Giles is the FT’s economics commentator. He writes a fortnightly column and the weekly newsletter, Chris Giles on Central Banks (sign up here). Previously, he was economics editor and served as a leader writer.

    He is an Honorary Professor of Practice at the UCL Policy Lab. Before joining the FT, he worked for the BBC, Ofcom and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Chris loves numbers.

    Email Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Do we still need to talk about inflation? Premium content

      Stephen D King on why his book is still relevant

      Stephen D King
    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Political Fix podcast25 min listen
      Autumn Statement Reaction

      The FT’s top commentators dig into the details of the government’s giveaway budget

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      US inequality
      What if US income inequality has not risen?

      New research turns old certainties on its head and raises profound questions about American society

      A photo of the Versace store on Fifth Avenue in New York
    • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Emerging market central banks may be trumping the Fed and ECB Premium content

      Policymakers in advanced markets have lessons to learn from Latin America and Asia, though caveats should be noted

      The Central Bank of Brazil in Brasilia
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Japan’s elusive wage-price spiral Premium content

      The central bank rightly still worries inflation will be too low

      Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda speaks to the media
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Renewable energy
      Progress towards net zero is slow but steady

      A difficult autumn of news is masking real advances in the most important areas

      Wind turbines stand on a hill in Shandong province, China. In the power sector, fossil fuel use will probably peak this year and begin to fall from 2024 at an accelerating pace
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Should we believe what central bankers are saying? Premium content

      There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks — not all of it was informative

      ECB president Christine Lagarde speaks to reporters after the governing council’s monetary policy meeting in Athens last month
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Central banks hold interest rates at a scary time Premium content

      The Bank of Canada and European Central Bank’s thinking diverges on economic shocks

      ECB president Christine Lagarde pictured in Athens last week
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      UK employment
      The UK’s ‘official’ labour data is becoming a nonsense

      How can we make economic policy if the figures we rely on are problematic?

      People queue outside a job centre in England
    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Chris Giles on inflation crimes and misdemeanours Premium content

      The end of price stability has unleashed an epidemic of rigid or sloppy thinking

      Jay Powell
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Chris Giles on how to solve the Bank of England’s forecasting problem

      In my first newsletter: advice for Ben Bernanke, former head of the US Federal Reserve

      Ben Bernanke
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      UK economy
      The hard economic reality for anyone wanting to govern Britain

      While the prognosis is generally depressing, a much healthier environment is just about possible

      Houses under construction in Hugglescote. Permitting new towns, housing, wind turbines and solar farms where they are currently prohibited would use land more efficiently and enhance productivity
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Eurozone inflation
      Eurozone inflation hits 2-year low as US price pressures ease

      Data helps steady bond markets and signals prospect of end to interest rate rises on both sides of Atlantic

      People shop for cheap clothes in Germany
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      UK public finances
      Beware fiscal rules that are easy answers to complicated problems

      I was wrong to think that taking into account UK public sector assets, as well as debt, would be a silver bullet

      A construction worker closes a gate in hoardings around the HS2 development near Euston station in London
    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Global Economy
      A ‘milestone’ moment: why economists think the global cycle of rate rises is over

      The world economy is showing signs of a slowdown, fuelling investors’ hopes that inflationary pressures are easing

      The ECB’s Christine Lagarde, Jay Powell of the Fed and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast8 min listen
      Rupert Murdoch steps down

      Bank of England decided to hold interest rates at 5.25% yesterday

    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour vows to strengthen UK’s fiscal watchdog

      Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says OBR would be given independent powers to produce forecasts

      Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      UK interest rates
      How long will the Bank of England keep interest rates high?

      Markets are betting on looser monetary policy late next year, but some economists say it could happen sooner

      BoE building with rates graphic
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      UK interest rates
      Bank of England holds interest rates at 5.25%

      Pound falls to six-month low after decision signals possible peak in borrowing costs

      The Bank of England in London, England
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      UK inflation
      Investors slash bets on UK rate rise after inflation falls to 6.7%

      Economists expected higher oil prices to push up inflation

      Someone holding a shopping basket
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Global economic growth
      Central banks must keep rates high until inflation is tamed, says OECD

      Organisation sees no case for monetary easing in rich nations despite economic strains and trading tensions

      Clare Lombardelli
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Liz Truss makes defiant return to political fray

      UK’s shortest-serving PM unbowed in speech despite disastrous legacy and attacks from within own party

      Liz Truss arrives at the Institute for Government to make a speech on Monday
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      UK interest rates
      BoE expected to raise interest rates to 5.5%

      Markets and economists anticipate the 15th increase in this cycle by the central bank to be the last

      People sitting outside the Bank of England in London, England
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      UK inflation
      Cutting UK inflation won’t ease Conservative plight

      Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt will soon learn painful lesson that haunts Joe Biden in US

      Rishi Sunak. Whether it is fair or not, today’s politicians will be blamed for destroying the long period of relative price stability
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      UK economy
      UK government weighs change to ‘triple lock’ to limit pension increase

      Ministers look at a rise in line with earnings excluding bonuses — below the headline 8.5% rate

      Rishi Sunak speaking in the House of Commons
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