What’s wrong with economics? With Angus Deaton
Sir Angus Deaton won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015. So when he says he is rethinking many of his assumptions about the field, it matters. Today on the show, Soumaya discusses what we are gettin...
8 Heinä 202433min
Does the economy still matter for elections? With John Burn-Murdoch
For years, pollsters described elections as referendums on the economy. But recently, voters have started to change how they talk about the economy, and how they vote. Today on the show, data reporter...
1 Heinä 202429min
Does pay transparency work? With Zoe Cullen and Pilita Clark
Our guest this week, Zoe Cullen, joins FT columnist Pilita Clark and Soumaya to discuss the benefits and hazards of revealing all about pay. Cullen is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School...
24 Kesä 202426min
Are we in for a hard landing? With Olivier Blanchard
Olivier Blanchard is the former chief economist of the IMF and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. He collaborated with former Fed chair Ben Bernanke t...
17 Kesä 202430min
Thinking about the global economy with Martin Wolf
Today on the show, the FT’s chief economics commentator joins host Soumaya Keynes to discuss why the US is racing ahead of Europe and whether the trend could reverse. They also discuss the outlook for...
10 Kesä 202426min
Are we getting inflation right? With Neel Kashkari
Today on the show Soumaya Keynes talks about macroeconomic mistakes and the interest rate outlook with Neel Kashkari, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. FT economics commentator Chr...
3 Kesä 202425min
The Economics of Parenting, with Emily Oster
Emily Oster is a professor of economics at Brown University, but she is probably best known as the author of the bestsellers 'Expecting Better' and 'Cribsheet', which crunch the research about the oft...
27 Touko 202434min
Has the US finally borrowed too much? With Jason Furman
US government debt is high, and it's getting higher. The US debt-to-GDP ratio is more than 100 per cent of GDP. The Congressional Budget Office thinks the deficit is headed to 6 per cent of GDP, and a...
20 Touko 202429min
