Soumaya Keynes
@soumayakeynes
Book writer ("How to Win a Trade War") Economics columnist at the Financial Times Host of The Economics Show podcast Singer-songwriter
The new tariffs threatened against imports from Canada don't seem to cover cars / car parts as they're already covered by an earlier section 232 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
ah yes that time the Canadians started boycotting American booze for no good reason at all - completely unprovoked - silly, really
"How to Win a Trade War" spotted in the Stansted airport - enjoying that the average buyer seems to be more interested in learning how to take drugs than how to win a trade war, but given the state of the world maybe it's not that surprising
Very exciting to see "How to Win a Trade War" given a special spot in Waterstones! "An insightful, accessible and timely explainer of our new economic climate ... [an] informative and frequently very funny guide" Waterstones link (UK): www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-...
Have we escaped the food crisis? New podcast this week exploring whether the Strait of Hormuz closure could still generate a surge in food prices. With SOAS professor Adam Hanieh and FT agriculture correspondent Susannah Savage.
Here's what the parenting spreadsheet chart looks like... And here's the piece (300 free clicks): as.ft.com/r/013b68b2-0...
The parenting spreadsheet is to aim for an even distribution of childcare. Mothers tend to do most childcare, regardless of their relative earnings. (Note these are simple averages - there are definitely differences between the couple types beyond relative earnings!)
The parenting spreadsheet is to cope with a working arrangement that very few Britons describe as the best way to deal with young children: both my husband and I work full-time.
This week's column is about my peculiar parenting spreadsheet... as.ft.com/r/4523b5fb-7...
Let me introduce you to... the parenting spreadsheet My column this week (300 free clicks): as.ft.com/r/8afe1f37-b...
New study looking at where PhD economists get jobs. I knew about the trend towards tech hiring economists in the 2010s. I didn't realise Amazon was such a big part of that... (Their data goes up to 22, so not including the latest job market collapse.) cepr.org/publications...
From a fascinating new NBER working paper exploring the economics and geopolitics of shipping www.nber.org/papers/w35449
After the Chinese take over ownership of a port, port calls from Chinese-owned ships increases dramatically
New podcast about the economics of weight loss, featuring Rebecca Diamond of Harvard and my FT colleague @Claer-Barrett.bsky.social talking about her experiences. One of Claer's theories for why there might be an obesity gradient for women is that they are the ones doing unpaid labour at home...
In the debate over wealth taxes, who do you most identify with? Lots of options... link: www.ft.com/content/bf18... gift link: as.ft.com/r/0abf4348-b...
Who do you most identify with? Are you a democracy defender, a cash grabber, a quibbler or a prudish perfectionist?
Who wants to tax a billionaire? My attempt to anger *everyone* in a fraught debate www.ft.com/content/bf18...
Fabulous newsletter today from @ChrisGiles.ft.com, including reflections on Mervyn King's approach to transparency www.ft.com/content/8f35...
"Cheeky" - The Wall Street Journal ...so How to Win a Trade War got reviewed on @WSJ.com, and gave a description that I'm sure will go on the paperback. Very very cool! www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
On Friday I appeared on BBC Radio 4's Free Thinking programme. I managed to to get in discussion of sushi, the relationship between trade and peace as well as the risk associated with agglomeration. All from How to Win a Trade War! And then I inexplicably took a fish selfie.
Great long-read today on Masayoshi Son, by David Keohane Starting off with the unhinged golden egg powerpoint presentation exploded into my whatsapps and ending with this fair comment from an FT reader as.ft.com/r/8caf8470-d...
Alison Wolf on the gulf between the rhetoric and the reality of apprenticeships 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/a0713ca7-8...
also new song, but you'll have to look on instagram if you want to see it. www.instagram.com/p/DaVAq0toA9H/
Did Chinese inventories help adjust to the oil shock? Or was it weak domestic demand? New episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, with guest Tyler Goodspeed links to listen: www.ft.com/content/8b8a... link to transcript: www.ft.com/content/6c72...
Morgan McSweeney's next move: protecting us from AI-distorted elections 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/53e964c2-8...
The same paper finds evidence to suggest that whereas women who take GLP-1 drugs are no less likely to separate from their partners, men *do* see an increase in split rates. Caveat that the sample sizes for men are small and so I really did mean "suggest".
A new study by @rebeccadiamond.bsky.social suggests that taking GLP-1 drugs has enormous effects on (i) unemployed women finding employment and (ii) single women finding partners. (And the caveat paragraph for the sceptics.)