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Soumaya Keynes

@soumayakeynes.ft.com

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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

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@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 3:21 PM

Side note: I hadn't appreciated just how much UK car production had fallen already...

www.ft.com/content/cf56...

@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 3:21 PM

Trends look different depending on the type of vehicle - the hottest competition is for cars with batteries. And w/ hybrids you can see that recently the value of imports from China has risen while that from the EU has plateaued

www.ft.com/content/cf56...

@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 3:21 PM

For now, China's success has happened alongside growing UK imports from the EU...

www.ft.com/content/cf56...

@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 8, 2026, 3:21 PM

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...

@vaaranpa.um.fiOct 6, 2026, 7:43 PMReposted by @soumayakeynes.ft.com

Available in book format as well. @trade--talks.bsky.social @soumayakeynes.ft.com

Book ’how to win a trade war’ by Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 3, 2026, 2:46 PM

Aww that’s so nice!!!

@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 2, 2026, 3:27 PM

not quite the same as the critical minerals episode, but still worth your while!

@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 2, 2026, 3:21 PM

**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...

@soumayakeynes.ft.comOct 2, 2026, 10:28 AM

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

@chadpbown.comSep 27, 2026, 12:14 PMReposted by @soumayakeynes.ft.com

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...

@soumayakeynes.ft.comSep 25, 2026, 12:43 PM

Economists are allowed to call themselves *social* scientists, but not scientists. These are my rules.

@soumayakeynes.ft.comSep 24, 2026, 3:21 PM

Thinking about the end of the world? Check your biases.

My FT column this week: www.ft.com/content/9d11...

@soumayakeynes.ft.comSep 23, 2026, 7:40 PM

Eyyyyy How to Win a Trade War got shortlisted for the SABEW Best in Business Book Awards!!

sabew.org/2026/09/shor...

@bencasselman.bsky.socialSep 21, 2026, 12:00 PMReposted by @soumayakeynes.ft.com

“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...

@soumayakeynes.ft.comSep 20, 2026, 6:49 PM

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

@mclem.orgSep 19, 2026, 6:03 PMReposted by @soumayakeynes.ft.com

Great to see @soumayakeynes.ft.com and @chadpbown.com ‘s brilliant and timely book in the wild 📚

@soumayakeynes.ft.comSep 19, 2026, 8:00 AM

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...

@tonytassell.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 8:18 AMReposted by @soumayakeynes.ft.com

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...

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