Martin Wolf

Tuesday, 7 February, 2023

Sunday, 5 February, 2023

Tax

The case for a land value tax is overwhelming

Natural resources are quite different from the capital stock created out of human effort

Tuesday, 31 January, 2023

Central banks

When good economic news may not be good news

The dilemma for central banks is whether today’s optimism is consistent with returning inflation rates to 2 per cent

Tuesday, 24 January, 2023

Global Economy

What I learnt in my days on the mountain in Davos

Business is feeling more cheerful but many unresolved challenges remain

Sunday, 22 January, 2023

Healthcare costs

The dangers of magical thinking on health policy

We must carefully consider how changes in the funding model might affect the healthcare system

Friday, 20 January, 2023

The Weekend Essay

Martin Wolf: in defence of democratic capitalism

The marriage of liberal economics and democracy has brought immense benefits to the world, but faces its toughest test in decades. What needs to be done?

Wednesday, 18 January, 2023

World Economic Forum

Davos: There’s life in global capitalism yet

Rumours of the demise of international business and trade have been exaggerated

Tuesday, 17 January, 2023

Global Economy

We must tackle the looming global debt crisis before it’s too late

A range of factors have made the cost of borrowing prohibitive for poor countries

Tuesday, 17 January, 2023

InterviewCentral banks

Philip Lane: ‘We haven’t seen “normal” in Europe for a long time’

The European Central Bank’s chief economist discusses the institution’s response to a series of global shocks

Tuesday, 10 January, 2023

Emerging markets

The threat of a lost decade in development

A way has to be found to resolve the debt problems that are now emerging for the world’s most vulnerable

Tuesday, 20 December, 2022

Global Economy

Glimmers of light in a terrible year

From the return of the west to the triumph of democracy, not everything that happened in 2022 was bad

Wednesday, 14 December, 2022

Behind the Money podcast21 min listen

Martin Wolf on the economy in 2023

The FT’s chief economics commentator discusses some of 2022’s biggest stories — inflation, the war in Ukraine, climate change — and how they might impact events next year

Tuesday, 13 December, 2022

Globalisation

The optimists were right and can be so again

We cannot wait for another period of catastrophe before we attempt renewal

Sunday, 11 December, 2022

UK public services

The UK government’s policy on public sector pay is foolish

Letting inflation reduce real wages while expecting services to be maintained is dishonest

Thursday, 8 December, 2022

David Gardner

In celebration of David Gardner

An address for our FT colleague at his memorial service

Tuesday, 6 December, 2022

War in Ukraine

It is the west’s duty to help Ukraine win this war

We can afford it, and backing Kyiv will be less expensive in the long run than allowing Putin to prevail

Friday, 2 December, 2022

Financial & markets regulation

‘Competitiveness’ mantra must not let risky banking rise again

We should not relax ringfencing, not least because UK banks remain undercapitalised

Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Global Economy

How to think about policy in a polycrisis

In our interactive world, we can no longer put problems into convenient intellectual silos

Sunday, 27 November, 2022

UK economic growth

The UK government should stop doing stupid stuff

It should not consider regulatory changes unless they will clearly be for the better

Thursday, 24 November, 2022

FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen

The geopolitical threat to globalisation

The FT’s chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, discusses why geopolitics could be the biggest threat to globalisation

Wednesday, 23 November, 2022

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022

Best books of 2022: Economics

Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles of the past six months

Tuesday, 22 November, 2022

Renewable energy

The market can deliver the green transition — just not fast enough

Policymakers and governments need to work out how to accelerate the process

Thursday, 17 November, 2022

Autumn Statement

Jeremy Hunt offers no jam today and none tomorrow

There is nothing in the chancellor’s Autumn Statement to suggest radical new thinking on growth

Tuesday, 15 November, 2022

Central banks

Central banks are right to act decisively

The worst possibility would not be for disinflation to be done too slowly but for policymakers to give up too quickly

Sunday, 13 November, 2022

Conservative Party UK

The Tories need to abandon their shibboleths

The state is likely to grow faster than the economy and so must the tax burden

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