Only a few more days to apply for the Paul McClean graduate trainee programme at the FT this year - this is one of the great entry jobs in journalism. A remarkable opportunity ft.com/content/314ff7…

I know the data isn't seasonally adjusted

Serious people therefore look away now

Here is UK annualised CPI inflation over different periods of comparison over the past year

shush (there hasn't been any for 6 months)

Next Tuesday we launch HOT MONEY: THE NEW NARCOS, a new eight part investigative podcast into international organised crime made with a brilliant team from Pushkin Industries 🎙️ and the Financial Times

Join us next week - in person or online - for our first ever Workertech conference, all about the potential of tech to support better work. Hear from investor and founder Sherry Coutu CBE, journalist Sarah O'Connor investor @helengironi and lots more:
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In Bristol this Thursday eve? Come to a live podcast recording (16th Nov) with me, the FT’s Sarah O'Connor and Susannah Streeter of Hargreaves Lansdown taking your money questions - tickets from £5 here: bristolideas.co.uk/attend/money-c… Bristol Ideas Personal Finance

Thrilled to have a live recording of the Financial Times Money Clinic podcast with Claer Barrett,
Sarah O'Connor & Susannah Streeter Hargreaves Lansdown at the #FestivalofEconomics - Thurs 16 Nov 7pm buff.ly/40uI0l2 Personal Finance - Join us there & get your questions answered!! #EconTwitter #finance

Excited to be recording a live episode of Money Clinic podcast at the Bristol #festivalofeconomics with the FT's Sarah O'Connor and HL's Susannah Streeter Susannah Streeter on Thurs 16th Nov. Grab your ticket (£5-£10) by clicking on story below! Personal Finance ft.com/content/16aa1f…

This should be fun!

Looking forward to this in Dublin later this month...

Hello all! Last year I wrote a column (inspired by Randall Munroe's 'What If?') in which I attempted serious answers to absurd hypothetical questions about economics and the economy.
With your help, I'd like to do it again please. (RT, spread the word...)

An interview here with Claudia Goldin (Claudia Goldin) - announced today as winner of the Nobel economics prize - by Sarah O'Connor on why do women still earn less than men, particularly in high-paying occupations such as finance and law ft.com/content/92be2a…

Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, on losing to Kasparov at chess, driving a Kia (“my kids think it’s named after Keir”), fiscal discipline (yet again) & spending Valentine’s Day watching a Newnight banking special with her husband

Lunch with the FT:

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there are more Matts in the future of journalism than women

Is anyone any the wiser after Hunt's speech what the govt is actually proposing on benefits??
Cos it's already the case that you can't 'refuse' work (has been the case since 1911...) and more than half a million sanctions every year.
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So - I've got a new job and a new bio.

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Politicians keep promising the green transition will also achieve 'levelling up' by bringing jobs to places that need them. But as the Port Talbot steel decarbonisation plan shows, the idea of a simple 'win win' was always too breezy. ft.com/content/9471cb…

One mine in China accounts for 50% of the world's production of rare earths?! What could possibly go wrong! (From this vg Financial Times explainer) ig.ft.com/rare-earths/

Amazing that Uber still makes these warnings when faced with having to drop their self-employment model, given the many jurisdictions where they've already had to, & this hasn't been the result. Are UK Uber drivers doing any of these things?ft.com/content/1d2ca0…