 In September 1995, he became a business and economics reporter for "The Globe and Mail" in Toronto.Ip joined "The Wall Street Journal" in 1996, first as a reporter covering financial markets in New York and then as chief economics correspondent in Washington, D.C., where he created "Real Time Economics".He left the "Journal" in 2008 to become the U.S. economics editor of "The Economist" and returned as chief economics commentator in January 2015.