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    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Monetary policy
      Lessons from the great reflation

      There is a danger not just of loosening too soon but of loosening too far

    • 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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