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Soumaya Keynes

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Economics columnist at the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/soumaya-keynes Host of The Economics Show podcast https://link.chtbl.com/economicsshow Singer-songwriter http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Jul 11

**** SOME NEWS ****

The old Trade Talks team is back together... but instead of podcasting, @chadpbown.com and I are writing a book!

It's called "How to Win a Trade War" and it'll be out next Spring.

UK pre-order link: amazon.co.uk/dp/103509018X/

US: www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to...

How to Win a Trade War: A Guide to an Anxious World: Amazon.co.uk: Keynes, Soumaya, Bown, Chad: 9781035090181: Books

Buy How to Win a Trade War: A Guide to an Anxious World Main Market by Keynes, Soumaya, Bown, Chad (ISBN: 9781035090181) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible ord...

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 3d

Link to the piece in @economist.com : www.economist.com/china/2025/1...

China is the GOAT of engineering. Right?

Its next five-year plan must contend with a switch from manufacturing to services

www.economist.com

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 3d

Is China really the GOAT of engineering?

From @s1moncox.bsky.social, jumping off Dan Wang's book Breakneck.* Though while China maybe isn't exactly an outlier, its share of engineers does seem *quite* high by international standards.

* Just finished the book, would recommend!

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 5d

Eeee the cover for the UK edition of How to Win a Trade War is out!

Pre-order your copy here...
www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Trad...

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 5d

Why China's surplus might be ok, by @martinsandbu.ft.com

Tho-

"China has failed to persuade trade partners that its surpluses are good for their growth, largely because it has not shown enough interest in making those surpluses contribute to the importers’ growth potential."

tinyurl.com/4cn5ecp5

How I learnt to stop worrying about China’s surplus

Lessons from economic history point to the benign effects of ‘overcapacity’

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 18d

*URGENT RECOMMENDATION*

Anyone visiting or living in London HAS to go see the Benjamin Button musical. It’s only on for a few more weeks and it is SO GOOD. (I just saw it *for the second time*)

Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 25d

Anyone else have OCD about paragraph lengths? As in they must all span six lines, no more, no less? Just me...?

(send help)

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 26d

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 28d

Try unflavoured / unsweetened Huel! Tastes a bit like oat milk and you get used to it. Just be prepared for your partner (hi @patrickallies.bsky.social) to be very embarrassed by it

Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 29d

imagine if it came in powdered form and you could just add water

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 29d

yeah... I use it to find things as it's a bit more efficient than google. But beyond the links it throws up I ignore everything it actually tells me!

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 29d

On the one hand, so many abstracts are truly terrible

On the other hand, this will almost certainly throw up many *many* howling errors

On the other hand, as someone who wouldn't rely on the AI summary, and assuming many others would, this could give me some kind of competitive advantage?

Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · Nov 4

Well I'm sure this won't negatively impact the idea of scholarship as a shared collective endeavour to better understand the world.

Screen cap of Google scholar page. "AI outlines in Scholar PDF Reader: skim the bullets, deep read what you need"

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 8

a cat is sitting on a bed with the words `` hate you '' on it .

ALT: a cat is sitting on a bed with the words `` hate you '' on it .

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 7

and yes I will lose sleep over whether I did the capitalisations correctly

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 7

Writing a book called "How to Win a Trade War" and we might need a chapter called "Stuff We Didn't Think We Would Have to Say Was a Bad Idea But 2025 Here We Are"

Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · Sep 7

Following the Hyundai raid, LG Energy Solution suspended most business trips to the US and directed employees to return home immediately. It comes less than two months since South Korea committed $350B in US investments, including a $26B Hyundai steel mill in Louisiana.

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 7

I feel so ashamed now to admit that I was once a crocs snob... they are truly a wonder shoe

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 6

cool cool

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Column 🫵

Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 3

As a former resident of wonk-land, this made me snort

www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 4

probably zealot

Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 4

:) from January you'll be able to find me back at the FT's "The Economics Show" podcast! www.ft.com/the-economic...

The Economics Show

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 3

As a former resident of wonk-land, this made me snort

www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Sep 1

Just finished the really excellent book "Apple in China", by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social - highly recommend!

www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Apple-...

Apple in China

*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** ‘Absolutely riveting’ Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads‘Disturbing and enlightening’ Chris Miller, a...

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Aug 29

Especially cos we only have *lovely* things to say about her economic management

Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Aug 29

How very rude

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Aug 29

How very rude

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Aug 27

A positive productivity shock

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · Aug 27

can't play the NYT Mini Crossword for free anymore?????????

shame! shame!!!

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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · Aug 26

Have you ever taken an IQ test?
Do you think of your creative heroes as geniuses?
Have you ever looked at a work of "genius" and thought "I could do that"?

Then... read "The Genius Myth" by @helenlewis.bsky.social - I enjoyed it a lot!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/442983...

The Genius Myth

**Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award** *A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman and GQ Book for 2025 * *From the Sunday Times bestselling author ...

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