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Phillip Inman

Phillip Inman is economics editor of the Observer and an economics writer for the Guardian. He is the author of Managing Your Debt, a Which? essential guide; and the Guardian e-book The Financial Crisis: How Did We Get Here?

May 2025

  • The global headquarters of HSBC in Canary Wharf

    UK ministers to meet bank bosses over lending to small businesses

    Rachel Reeves concerned that lenders’ restrictions are holding back growth in the SME sector
  • Clare Lombardelli

    ‘It’s pretty bad’: Bank of England top official on the lack of female economics students

    Deputy governor Clare Lombardelli calls for more women and people from poorer backgrounds to take key subject
    • Financial markets have become a bulwark against populist excesses

      Phillip Inman
    • UK preparing to ban consumers from buying crypto with borrowed funds

    • Trump tariffs cause fastest slump in British factory export orders in five years

April 2025

  • Students around a table with copies of the Economist magazine

    Bank of England backs scheme to put more economics teachers into state schools

  • Steve Coogan in The Penguin Lessons

    It’s not poverty that’s breeding the new populism. It’s wealth

    Phillip Inman
  • A poster depicting Abrego García.

    US politics live
    Court denies Trump administration’s appeal against order to ‘facilitate’ return of man wrongly deported from US – as it happened

  • The banking district with the European Central Bank, in Frankfurt, Germany

    ECB cuts rates for third time this year as Europe braces for Trump tariffs

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Reeves says inflation fall shows ‘plan for change is working’ – as it happened

  • UK inflation falls to 2.6%, increasing pressure on Bank to cut interest rates

  • US stock markets expected to recover after Trump drops tariffs on mobiles

  • Why does British Steel need to be rescued by the government and what happens next?

  • Rachel Reeves calls for global free trade fightback to protect UK economy

  • Business live
    US stock markets rally as White House says there is ‘great optimism’ in the economy – as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Starmer aiming to ‘pass emergency legislation in one day’ to save British Steel – as it happened

  • What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?

  • Trump’s tariff battle with China has ‘echoes of the Vietnam war’, US economist says

  • UK economy far exceeds forecasts to grow 0.5% in boost to Rachel Reeves

  • Retailers fear Trump tariffs gloom will worsen footfall on UK high streets

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