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...On Friday, Ben Bernanke published his report into forecasting and communication at the Bank of England....
...Email me: chris.giles@ft.com Forecasts vs scenarios A particular bugbear of mine occurs when officials paint some picture of the future and say: “This is a scenario not a forecast.”...
...It is a madness I expect the Ben Bernanke review will address later this month....
...Email me: chris.giles@ft.com More important than US CPI inflation While financial markets dissected the price figures stateside, my focus was longer term....
...Please send your thoughts, comments and ideas to chris.giles@ft.com....
...This view was corroborated by BoE stalwart, deputy governor Ben Broadbent, who said in December that “additional uncertainty” meant “policy is likely to be somewhat more delayed”....
...Ben Broadbent, deputy governor, gave a speech where he talked about our lack of knowledge and that was an argument to wait before cutting rates. Why have you taken a different view?...
...“We want to have good shows, be sustainable and pay our bills first,” Giles says....
...Ben Broadbent, BoE deputy governor for monetary policy, said on Saturday that to bring down high inflation, “monetary policy may well have to remain in restrictive territory for some time yet”....
...When the wealthy hedge fund manager Giles Kenworthy is found dead by his wife, his throat pierced by an arrow, he isn’t much missed....
...Regulars included future directors Steve McQueen, Ben Wheatley, Joanna Hogg, Martin McDonagh, Mary Harron and Isaac Julien, and musicians such as Stereolab, Nick Cave and Barry Adamson....
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...Additional reporting by Ben Hall in London and Sam Fleming in Brussels...
...Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke and ex-IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard have warned that wages need to rise at a similar pace to productivity growth to have any meaningful impact on inflation....
...Commentator Chris Giles offers some solutions on how to fix Europe’s economy....
...Ben Nabarro, chief UK economist at Citigroup, forecast that the UK’s core CPI inflation rate, excluding food, alcohol, tobacco and energy prices would climb from a 6.2 per cent rate in March to 6.5 per cent...
...In a similar message Ben Broadbent, BoE deputy governor, said on Tuesday there was “no getting round the impact on real incomes of . . . jumps in import prices”, which he said had “led to second-round effects...
...(My colleague Chris Giles recently wrote an excellent deep dive into this sort of exercise for a number of major economies — I have stolen, I mean reproduced, his chart below.)...
...But, as Chris Giles writes in his latest newsletter (for Premium subscribers), noises from the Fed, the ECB and Bank of England do not suggest “central bankers will be speedy with action in 2024”....
...If you’re an FT Premium subscriber, you can sign up here to get Chris Giles on Central Banks sent straight to your inbox every Tuesday....
...In a detailed examination of public attitudes, professor Ben Ansell of Oxford university finds wealth and inheritance taxes extremely unpopular among voters across the political spectrum....
...Defence secretary Ben Wallace is said by government officials to be seeking about £10bn over two years to partly cover the effects on his department of supporting the war in Ukraine....
...Speaking to an audience at Imperial College, London, on Thursday Ben Broadbent revealed tentative internal BoE modelling that suggested interest rates needed to rise from the current 2.25 per cent rate by...
...Ben Broadbent, another BoE deputy governor, said the IMF was likely to be correct in singling the UK out as having the weakest economic prospects among industrialised countries this year, although he added...
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