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...Email me: chris.giles@ft.com Worrying about wages There is little today’s central bankers like to do more than worry about excessive wage rises. This is not a criticism....
...Email me at chris.giles@ft.com. Before you write that email, get your diaries out for the latest instalment of the FT’s (free to view) Global Boardroom virtual conference....
...(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.)...
...Lucy FisherChris Giles, the FT’s economics editor, thanks for joining us....
...One good read Chris Giles on the size of China’s economy....
...Chris Giles is right when he states that the core issue behind the lack of business investment in Britain is not access to capital but UK companies “not wanting” to do so (“Changing pensions regulations...
...Business groups objected strongly to the move, and Hunt is set to restore R&D tax relief for companies that can prove they are spending large amounts on research, in areas such as financial technology and...
...Chris Giles asks whether the last mile really is the hardest (in fighting inflation, that is). The unpromising promise of sustainable aviation fuels....
...“These should be sectors we know are highly productive and where there are [positive] spillovers from R&D into other sectors....
...The country is responsible for almost half the world’s medicine spending and US R&D accounts for two-thirds of the OECD total....
...Commendably, ministers have pledged to increase total R&D spending to 2.4 per cent of GDP by 2027....
...Economics editor Chris Giles explains. Former US president Donald Trump is set to fly to New York to face criminal charges in a Manhattan court tomorrow....
...If you’re rich, have a child under three, have a company that does a lot of R&D, and like going to the pub: congratulations — you’re a big winner from today’s UK Budget....
...Kwarteng, who has secured almost £4bn from the Treasury to help cut home heating emissions, is fighting to maintain public R&D spending, which was supposed to hit £22bn by the end of the parliament....
...“Investing to shift skills and R&D is all welcome,” she added. “The universal credit cut is totally Tory too: work harder, keep more of your wages.”...
...Chancellor Rishi Sunak is planning an overhaul of R&D tax credits after criticism they were a “costly failure”....
...We performed ‘London Song’ [based on Blake’s poem ‘London’] in St Giles church in Soho....
...The government’s estimate of the R number — which calculates how many people catch the disease from every infected person — widened its range to 0.7-1.1 in the latest week from a tighter spread of 0.8-1.0...
...The prime minister’s spokesperson said the tiers were designed “to reduce the rate of transmission and reduce the R rate in areas of high prevalence”, and the government was keeping the data constantly under...
...He added that he was determined to bring the R rate — the average number of new cases generated by an infected individual — below 1; it is currently “between 1 and 1.1”....
...Prof Ferguson’s comment was based on the R number remaining higher than 1....
...This is the edited transcript of an interview between economist Andy Haldane and the FT’s economics editor Chris Giles...
...The government’s Office for Science separately reported on Friday that the spread of coronavirus had increased slightly, with the so-called R number — the number of people each individual testing positive...
...(April 29), Chris Giles cites Imperial College estimates showing the estimated reproduction number (R) of the Covid-19 virus in the UK dropped suddenly from over 3 to below one on March 23....
...VERDICT — FAIL Letter in response to this article: We need better data to measure the R accurately / From Felix Martin, London WC1, UK...
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