Martin Wolf

Sunday, 10 December, 2023

Wednesday, 6 December, 2023

US politics & policy28 min

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US legislation signals end of the era of free market globalisation

Tuesday, 5 December, 2023

UK economy

Britain needs a way out of economic stagnation

Without a solution, it will be impossible to solve the country’s other social and political problems

Wednesday, 29 November, 2023

Climate change

The good and bad news on climate change

As renewables become competitive on cost, it is policymakers who are the biggest brake on the energy transition

Tuesday, 28 November, 2023

Global trade

The US retains the economic advantage in its rivalry with China

America and its allies remain more united and economically powerful than Beijing’s group of malcontents

Sunday, 26 November, 2023

UK Budget

Jeremy Hunt’s search for an elusive growth strategy

The chancellor would benefit from a system with fewer fiscal events, and more focus on policy

Wednesday, 22 November, 2023

Autumn Statement

Hunt may be lucky but he has not solved the UK growth challenge

The real problem the chancellor faces is the poor performance of the economy in the long run

Tuesday, 21 November, 2023

Global Economy

The looming threat of fiscal crises

Public debt in high-income countries has reached elevated levels

Wednesday, 15 November, 2023

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Martin Wolf on his best economics books of the year

Martin Wolf selects his best reads of the second half of 2023

Tuesday, 14 November, 2023

Monetary policy

The case for loosening is getting stronger

As inflation eases, central banks now find themselves at the most difficult point in the policymaking cycle

Monday, 13 November, 2023

UK public finances

Controlling debt is just a means — it is not a government’s end

An excessively narrow focus on deficits can lead to bad decisions

Friday, 10 November, 2023

European Central Bank

ECB will not start cutting rates in ‘next couple of quarters’, Lagarde says

Central bank’s president tells FT rates must be kept at current levels for ‘long enough’

Thursday, 9 November, 2023

InterviewBank of Japan

BoJ governor warns unwinding ultra-loose policy is ‘serious challenge’

Kazuo Ueda tells FT conference that central bank will move carefully on raising interest rates

Tuesday, 7 November, 2023

Donald Trump

A Trump win would change the world

Were he to return to the White House, the implications for the US, its allies and the global economy are sure to be profound

Tuesday, 31 October, 2023

Israel-Hamas war

The economic consequences of the Israel-Hamas war

How the conflict unfolds will have implications for a global economy already battered by a series of shocks

Sunday, 29 October, 2023

UK regional policy

Regional policy must be at the heart of any sensible strategy for growth

Decades of failure have led to profound geographical inequality in the UK

Tuesday, 24 October, 2023

Chinese economy

Politics poses the biggest threat to economic growth in China

Abroad Beijing must manage rising hostility, while at home it wrestles with the relationship between communism and capitalism

Tuesday, 17 October, 2023

Global Economy

How to finance a faster shift to a better world

Multilateral development banks are a valuable tool — but they need a radical overhaul and we must learn to use them

Sunday, 15 October, 2023

UK equities

The strange death of corporate Britain

Pension and insurance companies have dumped UK equities, reducing the ability of companies to raise capital and expand

Tuesday, 10 October, 2023

Global Economy

The global economy is resilient but limping

Convergence between rich and poor countries is stalling and more challenges lie ahead

Tuesday, 3 October, 2023

Chinese economy

Can China overcome its demographic deficit?

As things stand, a declining population is set to slow the growth of the economy

Sunday, 1 October, 2023

UK inflation

Global lessons from inflation’s rise above the UK target

Errors in hitting central bank goals are likely to be asymmetric with a drift upwards that leads to recession

Thursday, 28 September, 2023

ReviewFT Books Essay

Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled

Tuesday, 26 September, 2023

Chinese economy

How China can avoid the Japan trap

Income needs to accrue to those who will spend it — but this will require redistribution on a significant scale

Tuesday, 19 September, 2023

Chinese economy

We shouldn’t call ‘peak China’ just yet

Yes, there are deep structural problems in the economy, but this is also a country with significant strengths

Martin Wolf

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