Martin Wolf | Financial Times

Tuesday, 27 September, 2022

Friday, 23 September, 2022

UK economic growth

Kwarteng is risking serious economic instability

The chancellor’s largesse raises large questions about debt sustainability

Tuesday, 20 September, 2022

UK economic growth

The economic consequences of Liz Truss

It is surely a fantasy that further tax cuts and deregulation will transform performance

Sunday, 18 September, 2022

Energy crisis

Britain’s energy package puts its economic credibility at risk

The new chancellor’s plan is poorly targeted, too generous and overly dependent on public borrowing

Tuesday, 13 September, 2022

Globalisation

Globalisation is not dying, it’s changing

Trade in goods may be slowing, but the potential for technology-enabled trade in services remains huge

Tuesday, 6 September, 2022

EU energy

Europe can — and must — win the energy war

Victory will be costly, but the EU has to free itself from Russia’s chokehold

Sunday, 4 September, 2022

Energy sector

The UK energy crisis is a burden of war

Assistance must be bold and target the vulnerable first

Friday, 2 September, 2022

FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign

Have lunch with FT’s Martin Wolf or Claer Barrett

Bid for your chance to meet FT columnists in the Flic charity auction

Tuesday, 30 August, 2022

Central banks

Tough economic times lie ahead

Central banks are playing catch-up but they cannot tackle the energy shock directly

Tuesday, 23 August, 2022

US politics & policy

A second Trump term would imperil the republic

What would rule by an ‘America-first’ nationalist mean for the residual credibility of the west’s political and economic systems?

Wednesday, 27 July, 2022

ReviewFT Books Essay

A matter of interest — the battle over monetary policy

Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke and historian Edward Chancellor offer conflicting perspectives on the crisis in central banking

Saturday, 16 July, 2022

FT News Briefing podcast29 min listen

FT Weekend: Martin Wolf on how to change one's mind

Martin Wolf on forming a worldview and allowing your opinions to change over time. Then, Courtney Weaver on the gentle parenting movement

Tuesday, 12 July, 2022

Global inflation

Inflation is a political challenge as well as an economic one

People care about price rises and the damage that they can do to real incomes

Sunday, 10 July, 2022

UK economic growth

The UK economy is stagnant — and the reasons run deep

Whoever succeeds Boris Johnson must be serious about tackling Britain’s profound productivity problem

Tuesday, 5 July, 2022

Cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies are not the new monetary system we need

They proliferate uncontrollably and are objects of speculation rather than stores of value

Tuesday, 28 June, 2022

Global trade

In an era of disorder, open trade is at risk

Action is needed to shore up the global commons — and less powerful countries must take the initiative

Sunday, 26 June, 2022

UK inflation

Grim times lie ahead for UK as inflation combines with low growth

Modest interest rate rises by the Bank of England would simply reflect the severity of the economic slowdown

Tuesday, 21 June, 2022

Globalisation

The big mistakes of the anti-globalisers

From treating trade as optional to overstating the merits of self-sufficiency, these are errors to avoid as we head into a new world

Monday, 20 June, 2022

Summer Books 2022

Best summer books of 2022: Economics

Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

Tuesday, 14 June, 2022

Global economic growth

Policy errors of the 1970s echo in our times

Vast debts make the world economy more fragile than it was over 40 years ago

Tuesday, 31 May, 2022

Global Economy

Twelve propositions on the state of the world

Global leaders face formidable challenges, from dizzying technological progress and geopolitical tension to climate change

Thursday, 26 May, 2022

Global Economy

Olivier Blanchard: ‘There’s a tendency for markets to focus on the present and extrapolate it forever’

The macroeconomist argues that the current situation is a bump but that we will return to very low real interest rates and the same problems we had before

Tuesday, 24 May, 2022

Federal Reserve

The Fed must act now to ward off the threat of stagflation

We know from the 1970s that the time to throttle an inflationary upsurge is at the beginning

Tuesday, 17 May, 2022

Brexit

Johnson must embrace the Brexit he made

The row over Northern Ireland risks a deeper decline in UK trade in response to threats of violence from a tiny minority

Tuesday, 10 May, 2022

US inflation

A soft landing in the US is possible but unlikely

It is optimistic to think that a significant recession will not be needed to curb inflation, as is the belief that one can be avoided

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