In this week's column I wrote about one frontier of today's trade wars: the UK car market. With charts. The EU's share of UK imports has dropped quite a lot since the pandemic/Brexit. www.ft.com/content/cf56...
Soumaya Keynes
@soumayakeynes.ft.com
Author of "How to Win a Trade War" FT econ columnist Host of The Economics Show w/ Soumaya Keynes podcast Singer-songwriter https://www.instagram.com/soumayakeynes/?hl=en and http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
**NEWS** I have started a substack, as a vehicle to tell you about my new FT columns and podcasts, as well as the odd song. You can sign up here: soumayakeynes.substack.com/p/why-the-ai...
Why the AI labs want economists
My first ever Substack post
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How is AI changing the nature of economic research? And how should we think about the stuff being put out by the AI labs? New episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, feat. @AraKharazian.bsky.social (Ramp), @Peter-McCrory.bsky.social (Anthropic) and @JBurnMurdoch.ft.com pod.fo/e/67c394
3) Jenny Bates joined The Economics Show with @soumayakeynes.ft.com for an important conversation about critical policy choices facing the UK and why, given China/US/EU... Podcast: www.ft.com/content/f2f1... Transcript: www.ft.com/content/ede2... Jenny's paper: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/pub...
Thinking about the end of the world? Check your biases. My FT column this week: www.ft.com/content/9d11...
Eyyyyy How to Win a Trade War got shortlisted for the SABEW Best in Business Book Awards!! sabew.org/2026/09/shor...
“I don’t sweep the floor with my uterus.” Absolutely love this conversation between @corinnelow.com and @soumayakeynes.ft.com about gender and time use in parenting. (Yes, they have spreadsheets!) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Can you spreadsheet your way to equal parenting? With Corinne Low
Podcast Episode · The Economics Show · September 18 · 27m
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zoombinis* *haven‘t played a proper video game in at least two decades but zoombinis was so important to me I felt I had to share
Retro Blast 👻@retroblastpod.com · 3w agoWhat's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
Immigrants must earn more to be net fiscal contributors in the UK vs elsewhere New piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com based on research by @usama-polani.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/832fb4d5-e...
Will US debt burst the AI bubble? very good, crisp podcast here with Ruchir Sharma and @chrisgiles.ft.com (standing in for @soumayakeynes.ft.com). Including a great section on why the 5% threshold on the 10-year US Treasury yield matters so much www.ft.com/content/ae62...
Will US debt burst the AI bubble? With Ruchir Sharma
Why America’s mounting debt could become the AI boom’s biggest threat
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Incredible study, with detailed data analysis answering a question I am desperate to know the answer to about a large and important countr… …it’s about Norway isn’t it
*VERY* excited to say that I'll be speaking and performing at Kilkenomics this coming November, the one and only economics + comedy festival. Full schedule here: kilkenomics.com/2026-schedule/
Blown away by this amazing (and brilliantly written) review of How to Win a Trade War, from Emily Blanchard of the Tuck School of Business. Excerpts below, and they've made the whole thing open-access: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
As the Chinese invest in chipmaking capacity, are they simply copying the playbook deployed by the Japanese and Koreans years earlier? On The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, Dan Kim (TechInsights) says this time is different Listen: pod.fo/e/5cf69a Transcript: www.ft.com/content/a467...
New episode of The Economics Show, in which I quiz Dan Kim of TechInsights on the causes and consequences of the intense shortage of memory chips. Listen: pod.fo/e/5cf69a Transcript: www.ft.com/content/a467...
HOW TO WIN A TRADE WAR... Korea launch! In Seoul, an extraordinary week of events to kick off the Korean translation of my new book with the amazing @soumayakeynes.ft.com. Old friends, new friends - thanks for the INCREDIBLE reception!!! Order it here: product.kyobobook.co.kr/detail/S0002...
When is an economist not an economist? Do I count? My @FT column this week explores... www.ft.com/content/89f0...
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
When planning this podcast, which I recorded with Torsten Slok immediately after Jackson Hole, I knew there was a bit of a risk. Would he say *nothing*? Luckily, as Torsten so clearly explained, it turned out okay... Listen: pod.fo/e/599703 Read the transcript: www.ft.com/content/44f9...
Interesting new paper by @joshua-goodman.com and Samuel Nitkin on private tutoring - it raises test scores, but because of differences in adoption it also raises inequality in test scores. Full paper here: www.nber.org/papers/w35671
Delighted to have this very nice review from Alan Winters in The World Economy for my book "How to Win a Trade War" with @Chadpbown.com! ...and there is an audio version, though it's just read by me Full review here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Recommend reading this @NYTimes.com op-ed from @ChadpBown.com about who really wins from the Trump administration crushing Canada's car industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...
Opinion: The rush to collaborate with these tech companies comes with risks. Read the column by Soumaya Keynes (@soumayakeynes.ft.com) here: ft.trib.al/qMUXSj6
What's up with the economics profession? Recently I've been hearing a lot about senior profs dusting off their CVs and trying to get gigs with the AI labs, as well as more arms-length collaborations. Working with an AI lab is seen as very cool. 🧵 www.ft.com/content/8471...
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"How to Win a Trade War" got recommended as one of the three books in the Ezra Klein Show and my day* is made *week really, but trying to play it cool
but, of course, Brad does recommend the best book of the year (?) @chadpbown.com & @soumayakeynes.ft.com :> #howtowinatradewar www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/o...
The Economist has published @dacemoglumit.bsky.social's response to their critical column and it is spiky www.economist.com/letters/2026...
