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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 27/09/2026
The India shock: exporting workers to the world. My latest column for @financialtimes.com. Emigration has helped New Delhi manage its labour surplus. But just as China is experiencing a worldwide backlash to its exports, India faces one as well. as.ft.com/r/b27e909a-1...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 20/09/2026
The UK has uncovered how to boost its lacklustre productivity growth: get better data. My latest for @financialtimes.com. Productivity is only a proxy for prosperity. It is not as if Britons woke up after the ONS' latest data revision feeling better about their fortunes: as.ft.com/r/dbca1f13-d...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 13/09/2026
AI is getting smarter. Human intelligence, however, appears to be going the other way — at least among teenagers. My latest @financialtimes.com column. Falling global test scores underscore the importance of core knowledge, attention and mindset. as.ft.com/r/dce3c6c2-e...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 06/09/2026
Britain is a factory for ideas applied elsewhere. My column for @financialtimes.com: Barriers to commercialisation at home push the upsides of UK ingenuity abroad. as.ft.com/r/17051668-9...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 28/08/2026
US manufacturing is booming — but not because of Trump’s tariffs My latest for @financialtimes.com. This is not the nostalgic, protectionism-fuelled revival that the US president promised: as.ft.com/r/d3cf50b7-6...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 16/07/2026
Socialists should embrace luxury apartments. Sometimes the most optimal solutions can feel the most counterintuitive. Read why in my latest @financialtimes.com column.
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Why socialists should embrace luxury apartments
High-end developments can be more effective at unlocking affordability than social housing programmes
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Why the world’s most populous nations are bad at the world’s most popular sport - @tejparikh.ft.com on China and India’s underperformance in football. Contrast to Cape Verde as.ft.com/r/ea6cec86-e...
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Why are China and India so bad at football?
Despite large populations and economies, the countries consistently fail to qualify for the World Cup
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 12/07/2026
Why are China and India so bad at football? My latest for @financialtimes.com. A strong talent pool and economic might are important but not sufficient conditions for footballing success: as.ft.com/r/b0cd0be6-6...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 05/07/2026
To drive productivity growth, rich nations must unleash land, labour, energy & capital. My latest for @financialtimes.com. As policymakers shift towards industrial interventionism, they risk neglecting the simplest drivers of growth: as.ft.com/r/b21afb0a-3...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 28/06/2026
Robots, not chatbots, will realise AI’s true potential. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Factory-floor applications of AI could significantly enhance rich-world economies. as.ft.com/r/f3b43f91-7...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 21/06/2026
Rejoining the EU is no panacea. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Rather than attempting to reverse Brexit, Britain should focus on its domestic economic growth agenda as.ft.com/r/17ff4308-8...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 14/06/2026
If the UK is to grow faster, it will need real “Manchesterism”— not the version Andy Burnham supporters appear to think he represents. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Manchester's revival is a triumph of private enterprise: as.ft.com/r/1d35fa4c-7...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 07/06/2026
Anti-AI populism is on its way. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Tech anxiety will be seized upon by politicians—echoing the anti-immigration rhetoric that has shaped public discourse over much of the past decade as.ft.com/r/7a960043-8...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 31/05/2026
China's comparative advantage IS industrial policy. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Western attempts to imitate Beijing’s economic strategy are unwise. as.ft.com/r/317c2dcc-6...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 24/05/2026
Why big tech IPOs could signal the top of the market. My latest for @financialtimes.com. A potential deluge of AI-related equity supply removes a source of upthrust for prices: as.ft.com/r/491c536f-7...
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Ben Page @benpageresearch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Great piece in @data.ft.com by @tejparikh.ft.com on how unwillingness to compromise by an angry divided electorate leads to instability and stasis
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 17/05/2026
Britain gets the politics it deserves My latest for @financialtimes.com. Cakeism, impatience and low-quality public discourse contribute to the UK’s instability: as.ft.com/r/f0f38543-d...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 03/05/2026
Donald Trump's green new deal My latest column for @financialtimes.com: The US president has inadvertently raised the appeal of renewable energy across the world: as.ft.com/r/ac96a71b-a...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 26/04/2026
The UK acts richer than it is. My latest column for @financialtimes.com: Britain's habits and virtues are built for a prosperity it no longer enjoys as.ft.com/r/a66d71ce-9...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 19/04/2026
Check out my latest column for @financialtimes.com: The S&P 500 keeps rising...the market appears to be adopting an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (EBITDA) approach: as.ft.com/r/d23a0e69-d...
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The stock market’s new approach to valuation
It is demonstrating an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (ebitda) mentality
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 19/04/2026
Check out my latest column for @financialtimes.com: The S&P 500 keeps rising...the market appears to be adopting an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (EBITDA) approach: as.ft.com/r/d23a0e69-d...
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The stock market’s new approach to valuation
It is demonstrating an Earnings Before Iran, Tariffs and Dubious Announcements (ebitda) mentality
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 29/03/2026
How the Iran war will cement China's superpower status Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter: as.ft.com/r/1f7ba68f-1...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 22/03/2026
Will the Iran war derail the AI boom? Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter: as.ft.com/r/60fb1df9-7...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 15/03/2026
Britain should revive North Sea gas operations. My latest take for the @financialtimes.com in the wake of the Iran war: as.ft.com/r/2032ca48-2...
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Iran war should prompt a North Sea rethink
[FREE TO READ] Sweating the UK’s natural gas assets can support the country’s green transition
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 22/02/2026
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) How technology reshapes our minds, with a specific look at the attention economy and its impact on our ability to focus: as.ft.com/r/3a187ac4-6...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 15/02/2026
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) Britain's penchant for self-destruction: as.ft.com/r/a17bbe0e-b... With insights from @peterallen.bsky.social, Tina Fordham and Kallum Pickering
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 08/02/2026
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Recessions have become rarer. But that's not necessarily a good thing: as.ft.com/r/b1991122-0...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 01/02/2026
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) The case against the AI ‘jobpocalypse’: as.ft.com/r/a18124f0-c...
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
First, THERE IS NO PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLE. If you find something "puzzling" about how the financial crisis, Brexit vote, pandemic, Brexit, 5 PMs and energy crisis knocked our low investment economy downwards, do something else. See @tejparikh.ft.com 1/ www.ft.com/content/583a...
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The UK doesn’t have a productivity puzzle
The obstacles to higher growth in Britain are well known
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
How one year of ‘America First’ left workers behind - some telling charts here in piece by @tejparikh.ft.com on how Trump's rhetoric has not matched reality. Other charts show weaking factory construction, the tariff impact on prices, and falling worker share of GDP www.ft.com/content/1afa...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 25/01/2026
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) How one year of ‘America First’ has left workers behind: as.ft.com/r/888fc154-4...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 18/01/2026
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Tech dominance is about innovation, and diffusion. That's why China may have the edge in the AI race: as.ft.com/r/869f07ba-8...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
So much chatter on broadcast media about a topic to which the answer is known, as @tejparikh.ft.com sets out brilliantly here (free for first 300 clicks here, permanent link in replies):
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Labour has already broken its manifesto commitments
[FREE TO READ] Tax rises, instability and a lack of pro-growth measures contravene the party’s election platform
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 30/11/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Labour's broken manifesto promises, in charts: on.ft.com/3Xr1435
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 23/11/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) New York and California are losing their economic shine: on.ft.com/3KgTk0C With insights from @scottlincicome.bsky.social, @taxfoundation.bsky.social, fDi markets, and Aziz Sunderji
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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Excellent piece on how to balance the budget and put growth first by @tejparikh.ft.com Breaking the triple lock, freezing allowances and more ambition on welfare. Plus tax simplification, planning reform and delaying the 'day-one' workers' rights reforms. www.ft.com/content/fdbc...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 16/11/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) The Budget Britain needs—but won't get: on.ft.com/4oRjztO With insights from Policy Exchange, @adamsmith.org, Oxford Economics, Jon Moynihan, @samdumitriu.bsky.social, and Ben Hopkinson
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Britain’s Budget must put growth first — here’s how
[FREE TO READ] Rachel Reeves can break the UK’s fiscal ‘doom loop’ by backing business and workers
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 09/11/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Is imitating humans the right goal for technology? An interview with @erikbryn.bsky.social, professor, author and senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence: on.ft.com/43OLOAE
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Did we even need generative AI?
[FREE TO READ] Erik Brynjolfsson, Stanford academic and author, asks whether mimicking humans is the right goal of technology
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 02/11/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) The economic UPSIDES of Donald Trump's second term so far... I took on a reader's challenge. Here's what I found: on.ft.com/48YQXtq
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
China’s innovation paradox - www.ft.com/content/b444... via @tejparikh.ft.com Really important finding. China has hit the ball out of the park, industrial-strategy wise, AND seen a productivity growth slowdown. The first is not helping improve the second!
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China’s innovation paradox
Industrial policy has delivered impressive technological gains without productivity growth
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 19/10/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter (1/2) China's innovation paradox: Beijing's industrial policy has turned the country into a technological power, but it hasn't led to productivity growth: on.ft.com/4hotGTY
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 12/10/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Welcome to Schrödinger’s economy, where the US looks both resilient and fragile, Trump’s policy agenda appears at once disruptive and oddly inconsequential, and markets feel euphoric yet uneasy: on.ft.com/4n0nO4a
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 07/10/2025
Send @financialtimes.com your questions on the global economy and I will answer them, alongside Martin E. Sandbu, in a live Q&A from 1pm to 2pm (BST) on Thursday October 9. www.ft.com/content/b355...
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Submit your questions: Can the global economy withstand new shocks?
Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s Tej Parikh and Martin Sandbu on Thursday October 9 at 1pm BST
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 14/09/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Advanced economies are getting submerged under an ever-growing heap of red tape: on.ft.com/3VdOlQn
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Great piece by @tejparikh.ft.com. The US is economy is stagnating, apart from healthcare and tech, and consumption growth is driven by wealthy people enjoying stock market gains www.ft.com/content/e9be...
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Is the US already in a recession?
For vast segments of the American economy it certainly feels that way
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 07/09/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) A handful of narrow growth engines are propping up America's otherwise broadly slowing economy: on.ft.com/3JNBO3D
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 22/08/2025
Check out my latest article for @financialtimes.com Will Trump avoid a Republican backlash over his tariff plans? on.ft.com/3UGYDrN
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 10/08/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/3) How the rise of the intangible economy demystifies the US stock market's performance today: on.ft.com/45Hx4op With insights from: @ckaiwu.bsky.social, @wipo.int, Jonathan Haskel and Andrew McAfee
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 29/07/2025
Check out my latest @financialtimes.com column: How Trump muddles the stock market Flooding the zone' stokes information overload and toys with investors' cognitive biases: www.ft.com/content/0186...
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tejparikh.ft.com @tejparikh.ft.com · 20/07/2025
Check out the latest edition of my @financialtimes.com newsletter. (1/2) Don't be fooled, the US economy is more fragile than it appears: on.ft.com/4kH2Ki1
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