Chris Giles

Thursday, 29 May, 2025

Wednesday, 28 May, 2025

Ageing Populations

The world of work is much more pleasant than we expected

Longer effective working lives have so far offset ageing populations

Tuesday, 27 May, 2025

UK economy

Will Reeves bend her fiscal rules to help balance the books?

IMF has warned there are ‘significant risks’ associated with delivering the UK chancellor’s economic strategy

Tuesday, 27 May, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

The Fed sheds one of its three big threats Premium

The courts will not pose a problem, even if tariffs and the budget still do

Saturday, 24 May, 2025

Swamp Notes podcast24 min listen

Trump’s next 100 days

Predicting President Donald Trump’s next moves is a fool’s errand. Two FT columnists try anyway

Tuesday, 20 May, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

Who will pay for Trump’s tariffs? Premium

It depends whether you ask businesses, exporters, officials or academics

Wednesday, 14 May, 2025

UK tax

How EV subsidies are taking the UK back to the 1970s

A cautionary tale about good intentions messing up the tax system

Tuesday, 13 May, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

A bad scenario for the UK Premium

The Bank of England’s efforts to highlight uncertainties require improvement

Tuesday, 6 May, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

We should not believe consumers who say they’ve got the blues Premium

Surveys of consumer sentiment tell us something, but no longer much about economics

Thursday, 1 May, 2025

Brexit

Brexit lessons for Trump’s trade war

Big talk of holding all the cards looks even worse with the benefit of hindsight

Tuesday, 29 April, 2025

Federal Reserve

Warsh delivers Fed a blast of cold heir Premium

How would the former central bank governor change the institution?

Tuesday, 22 April, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

Trump is making Fed chair the world’s worst job Premium

The president is intent on shaping the role for Jay Powell and his successor

Monday, 21 April, 2025

Trade disputes

The US, not others, will feel most pain from its economic mistakes

America is not the powerhouse it once was

Thursday, 17 April, 2025

Inside Politics

Think you can define Britain’s ‘wealthy’? Think again

Deciding who is well-off is no simple task — and calculating how to redistribute should be left to elected politicians

Tuesday, 15 April, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

Tariffs are the mother of all cost shocks Premium

The Fed needs to consider how levies raise prices and what it should do about it

Saturday, 12 April, 2025

FT News Briefing podcast18 min listen

Swamp Notes: The Federal Reserve’s tariff dilemma

How will the Federal Reserve handle the economic uncertainty brought about by Trump’s tariffs?

Wednesday, 2 April, 2025

UK public policy

Britain’s fiscal framework is not fit for purpose

There is nothing accountable or legitimate about unelected officials setting taxation and spending policy

Tuesday, 1 April, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

The unmistakable whiff of stagflation on the eve of tariff day Premium

While US economic pain is mostly visible in soft data, that is still a problem for the Federal Reserve

Friday, 28 March, 2025

Political Fix podcast38 min listen

Doom, gloom and not much headroom: Spring Statement

Chancellor faces deepening welfare cuts row and prospect of fresh tax rises

Thursday, 27 March, 2025

ExplainerFT Film30 min

Why governments are 'addicted' to debt | FT Film

With developed economies around the world loaded up with debt, at what point does the bond market break?

Wednesday, 26 March, 2025

UK public finances

From miserable to mediocre: the Reeves challenge continues

History suggests the OBR may, once again, have been persuaded to be too optimistic at a time of global turmoil

Tuesday, 25 March, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

Everyone misunderstands Jay Powell Premium

That is a problem for the Fed; plus a homily on the meaning of dovishness

Friday, 21 March, 2025

FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen

UK races to avoid Trump tariffs

US wants Britain to drop its digital services tax, which affects big American companies

Thursday, 20 March, 2025

UK Spring Statement 2025

What will be in Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement?

The chancellor’s ship is set to stay afloat despite choppy waters next week, but bigger threats lurk beyond

Tuesday, 18 March, 2025

Chris Giles on Central Banks

The Eurozone’s moment of truth Premium

Its strengths and weaknesses are well known, but the Trump administration is creating new opportunities and threats