Chris Giles

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Financial Times Economics Commentator; Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL Policy Lab Sign up to my newsletter in the link below

ft.com/comment/column… Joined May 2011

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Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_ 11h

Klaas Knot lays out his stall to be ECB president in @FT

Transcript here ft.com/content/c3c2d9…

Story as.ft.com/r/e9e6e242-60b…

www.ft.com Transcript of an interview with Klaas Knot Edited transcript from an interview with the Dutch nominee for the European Central Bank presidency

Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_ 6d

Everyone loves a league table...

I set out to find who has been the most articulate central banker

The journey and the results ft.com/content/ec6a56…

Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_ Oct 27

Kevin Warsh wants money to play a bigger part in monetary policy

It wasn't half bad after the pandemic as an early warning

Is it time for monetarism to stage a comeback?

ft.com/content/a7de51…

ft.com/content/a7de51…

Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_ Oct 22

France is burning; the US doesn’t promise prudence and still borrows more than expected: Italy has a chronic debt problem.

So I asked which G7 country is the profligacy poster child

(Extensive use of 🦔 charts - the king of charts)

as.ft.com/r/58664fa2-4f8…

Chris Giles @ChrisGiles_ Oct 20

You should never argue with a price, but....

The European (EU and UK) gas crisis that has tripled prices this year is not that bad...

Storage is at normal levels relative to consumption. So much other evidence in my piece ft.com/content/31df1d…