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...Letters in response to this article: How triple lock presents a ‘prisoner’s dilemma’ / From Donald Franklin, London NW11, UK Let’s calculate pensions promise over a parliament / From Robert Simons, Leighton...
...Email me: chris.giles@ft.com The interest rate landscape Central bankers have given many interviews and speeches in the past week, and one unifying feature is that officials hate U-turns....
...What I’ve been reading and watching Over at Unhedged, Robert Armstrong interviewed Larry Summers of Harvard University....
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...“We want to have good shows, be sustainable and pay our bills first,” Giles says....
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...Free speech: In the tussle between good intentions and bad actors, society is in danger of losing sight of what it most needs to protect, writes Robert Shrimsley....
...German economy minister Robert Habeck presents annual economic report....
...That is almost double annual notifications in the US, points out Veronica Roberts, a partner at law firm Herbert Smith Freehills....
...Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s chief economist, said the signs were not looking positive for the housing market in the months ahead, even though the level of mortgage approvals and housing transactions had...
...Robert Wood, UK economist at Bank of America, said: “All indicators of persistent inflation pressure that the Bank of England said it would monitor closely have surprised on the upside or printed in-line...
...“For British companies, it’s particularly important to have a foothold in the EU after Brexit,” said Robert Hermann, chief executive of GTAI....
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.../ From Giles Dixon, London TW9, UK...
...Lucy FisherChris Giles, the FT’s economics editor, thanks for joining us....
...George ParkerChris Giles, Delphine Strauss, thank you for joining us....
...We’ve got nothing to add beyond what our colleague Chris Giles has expertly written, but if you do, email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Is liquidity behind the rally?...
...Now try this I mostly listened to Tasmin Archer’s excellent 1992 record Great Expectations while filling in for Robert Shrimsley in today’s paper....
...Maybe Robert Jenrick’s transformation is sincere; I am dubious, but more importantly, so as far as I can tell is every other member of the Conservative parliamentary party not called Robert Jenrick....
...Trump’s WTO-hostile USTR, Robert Lighthizer, was a former steel industry attorney who drove a Porsche....
...Now she is visibly in the Commons not particularly across the brief and doesn’t respond very well and sends Robert Jenrick an awful lot....
...As Robert Shrimsley puts it in his column this week: While the prime minister’s speech was parochial, intentionally divisive and aimed at shoring up a core vote, Starmer’s was national and inclusive....
...Concern over the UK’s response mounted after it emerged that the British ambassador Giles Lever and his deputy were both on leave when fighting broke out in Khartoum....
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