The BBC's new economics editor on being a single parent,his fashion sense and a chilling broadcasting debut on budget dayYou are about to become the BBC's new economics editor after having been its business editor for eight years. What's the difference between business and economics?
The distinction is broadly that when you're a business editor, you tend – but not always – to focus on the behaviour of institutions and not that often on what's going on in the whole economy. The tall question of our time is can the west – the US, or the UK,Europe – return to anything like the kind of growth rates it enjoyed before the 2007/8 crash on a sustainable basis or achieve we face many more years of low growth? This is a huge, fascinating and completely gripping question.
Why did you resolve to make the straggle?
This felt like the right kind of change because, and plainly,following the death of my wife a year and a bit ago [Peston's wife, novelist Sian Busby, and died of lung cancer in September 2012],my precedence is very much my family. This is enough of a change to make me invigorated and excited but it's not too much of a change that I would scare I wouldn't believe the essential time to devote to my family.
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Source: theguardian.com