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Financial Times · 139 episodes with transcripts

The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes is a new weekly podcast from the Financial Times packed full of smart, digestible analysis and incisive conversation. Soumaya Keynes digs deep into the hottest topics in economics along with a cast of FT colleagues and special guests.

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Lessons in communication for Kevin Warsh. With Chris Giles

October 16, 2026

Soumaya Keynes (0:00)

It is not a calm time in markets right now. Amid the war in Iran, an extraordinary AI buildout and fears about unsustainable public finances, bond yields have been climbing. As investors lose their cool, where are central bankers? Offering words of calm or adding to the anxiety?

Or perhaps they're taking this moment, this tense moment, to re-evaluate the way that they communicate?

SPEAKER_2 (0:28)

Transparency in communications about future policy decisions is not an end unto itself.

Communications must be in service to the Fed's paramount responsibility. What is that that's getting policy right?

Soumaya Keynes (0:44)

I am of course referring to one central banker in particular, Kevin Warsh, the new Chair of the Federal Reserve Interest Rate Setter in Chief. He has been trying to give investors some tough love this year, saying that if they are feeling stressed, sorry, they should not look to him for guidance. If they want to…

To get a sense of how the communications revolution is going, I thought it would be good to speak to the person who consumes more central bank communications than anyone else at the FT. I'll ask, is there such a thing as too much talking from a central bank?

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