Chris Giles



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Area of interest: International and UK Economics

Journals/Organisation: Financial Times

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Website: http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/chris-giles

Blog: http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/author/chrisgiles/

Representation: Leigh Bureau

Networks: https://twitter.com/ChrisGiles_



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Career: formerly a leader writer for the FT

Current position/role: Economics Editor of the Financial Times


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Video: Martin Wolf vs. Chris Giles on the UK economy 20th March 2013

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Awards/Honours: won the Royal Statistical Society’s prize for excellence in journalism in 2008; Business Journalist of the Year at the British Journalism Awards, 2012

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 * Three easy tests all UK parties flunk - Restoring productivity growth should be at the centre of their election campaigns - 23rd April 2015
 * How to deal with a child like Greece - Europeans cannot agree on how to treat the Greeks - 20th April 2015
 * British parties’ reckless tax pledges - A purpose of taxation is to bind people into a shared national endeavour - 9th April 2015
 * Voters face a choice of cuts or more cuts - The next UK government will need to replace the rollercoaster with a smoother path - 26th March 2015
 * Eurosceptic UK advice falls on deaf ears - On the subject of Greece, Britain could not be much further from being a player in the game - 12th February 2015
 * Mixed messages for Bank of England - In this world, wait and see is the right course for UK monetary policy - 29th January 2015
 * Analytical faults discredit Labour’s pitch - Error of party’s high command was one of hubris - 15th January 2015
 * Productivity will make or break next UK government - Britain is not alone in suffering a post-crisis slowdown, yet its decline is worse than elsewhere - 18th December 2014
 * The truth about UK living standards - Real wages are significantly lower, and younger workers are suffering - 19th November 2014
 * Immigration row will hurt Tory legacy - Cameron is writing an unhappy ending for his story of economic success - 6th November 2014
 * High stakes to keep rates low - The case for the 0.5 per cent interest rate is weakening - 23rd October 2014
 * The elusive truth about Britain’s deficit - The Tories and Labour present public finance policies that scale the heights of absurdity - 9th October 2014
 * Federalism eases path to a better realm - The arrangement should tempt local politicians with incentives to improve their patch - 25th September 2014
 * Going it alone is not just for the thrusting or the desperate - Growth in self-employment boosts output and tax revenues – it should be embraced - 31st July 2014
 * British job market surges in the regions - The gains are nationwide, some of the more surprising are happening far from London - 17th July 2014
 * UK’s productivity problem is easily solved - Cyclical forces should drag up the performance of productivity - 3rd July 2014
 * Prudential policy is not everything - Curbs on risky mortgages are not an alternative to higher interest rates - 19th June
 * Critics should heed good IMF advice - With the general election in the offing, the fund can help the parties produce sensible manifestos - 5th June 2014
 * Piketty findings undercut by errors - according to a Financial Times investigation, the rock-star French economist appears to have got his sums wrong - 27th May 2014
 * The BoE has good reasons to tighten - Bank should prepare markets for the first of a series of gradual rises, beginning in the autumn - 22nd May 2014
 * The BoE needs to curb its dovishness - It does not wilfully administer a policy of extraordinary stimulus, needed or not - 8th May 2014
 * The mysteries of the UK economy unravel - Three almost universally held ‘truths’ will wither when new standards are adopted - 24th April 2014
 * Hollow claims ring out over UK economy - As a chancellor who has suffered much abuse, Osborne is only giving what he has received - 10th April 2014
 * Caution is the byword for squeezed UK - Tory optimism about growth is unlikely to cheer the vast majority of households - 27th March 2014
 * Rescue the BoE tapes from the dustbin - Mark Carney should exert his executive power to stop the routine destruction of records - 13th March 2014
 * Britain’s recovery is rooted overseas - The sale of multimillion-pound London flats to foreign billionaires ranks as an export success - 27th February 2014
 * Carney must avoid another unforced error - The BoE hitched its wagon to unemployment when what it really cared about was recovery - 6th February 2014
 * Carney is dressing old policy in new clothes - The big question is whether declining unemployment has been a false omen of economic recovery - 23rd January 2014
 * Carney must consider raising rates - The Bank of England has been proved wrong over its forecasts of unemployment - 9th January 2014
 * Consumption is not just for Christmas - It is deeply patronising to fret that the little people are buying too much for their own good - 18th December 2013
 * Accurate forecasts suit Osborne for once - Expect a warts-and-all account of the OBR’s inability to see the recovery - 21st November 2013
 * Labour’s switch can damage the coalition - The focus on the cost of living is likely to pay political dividends - 7th November 2013
 * Time for real guidance from the BoE - The risk is that households and companies will borrow, thinking rock-bottom rates are guaranteed - 24th October 2013
 * Forget fiscal policy – supply matters - When we understand the issue better, it will determine how much more austerity is needed in the UK - 10th October 2013
 * Scant choice in UK’s 2015 election - However much politicians talk about clear differences, the parties have rarely been closer on economics - 26th September 2013
 * UK hopes it’s recovering like it’s 1995 - The economy might have turned the corner but nominal growth is too slow and too fragile - 12th September 2013
 * Carney could kick-start UK economy - The BoE must spend some of its monetary policy credibility in search of a more robust recovery - 1st August 2013
 * Will the royal baby buoy the UK economy? - FT assesses the impact of the prince’s birth - 24th July 2013
 * Britain’s rentier society fit for a royal - Never mind education, hard work or getting a good job – having the right ancestors matters - 18th July 2013
 * What works at the Fed may not in Britain - Forward guidance must be based on firm criteria, not least increased spending - 3rd July 2013
 * How well did Sir Mervyn do? - Chris Giles and Philip Stephens appraise the governor’s decade in charge of the Bank of England - 26th June
 * In it together – bar the pensioners - Never has there been a less apt time to pity granny and grandpa - 6th June 2013
 * Risk of creating another housing bubble - The chancellor should be working to build homes, not push prices up further - 25th May 2013
 * No magic pill for Britain’s economy - Hype over fiscal policy will detract from the rest of the IMF report - 23rd May 2013
 * Britain should worry about its failings - Eurozone figures hide many sins, but why is the UK not performing better - 9th May 2013
 * Austerity is hurting – but is it working? - Chris Giles and Robin Harding debate the case for and against, looking at the experiences of six countries - 27th April 2013
 * A more nominal view of the UK economy - If Carney is able to introduce this new thinking into the BoE, he might live up to expectations - 25th April 2013
 * Austerians stand their ground over deficit - The tone of the spring meetings barely changed by spat over Reinhart-Rogoff paper - 20th April 2013
 * Bank lending boost won’t turn UK round - Small companies account for less than a 10th of business investment - 11th April 2013
 * Osborne is too timid, not too austere - The view that austerity is condemning the UK to more stagnation is not supported by the evidence - 14th March 2013
 * UK’s official statistics cannot be trusted - That the ONS has not fought to defend measures of the public finances shows it to be supine - 27th February 2013
 * The five questions Carney must answer - The next BoE governor must live up to his rock star billing - 6th February 2013
 * Sir Mervyn takes a walk on the supply side - The change suggests the pain endured thus far has been to little avail - 23rd January 2013
 * RPI stand makes bad day for public policy - why leaving retail price index unchanged is wrong - 10th January 2013
 * Welfare cuts may bite the UK government - When incomes rise and the Treasury refuses to raise social security, everyone will complain - 9th January 2013
 * Britain needs to adopt a more German face - As a model of coping with sudden slowing, Berlin has achieved a better result than Tokyo - 26th December 2012
 * Osborne should heed Carney’s message - The new BoE governor will bring change, but not all of it welcome - 12th December 2012



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