vapor trails and passenger jets high in the sky ©Alamy 8:00pm

Emissions trading: Cheap and dirty

The linchpin of Europe’s effort to curb global warming is at risk of collapse

Feb 10, 2012

Back in the game

Chrysler advert encapsulates rising optimism about US industry

Merkel in Berlin Feb 9, 2012

Germany and Europe: A very federal formula

Angela Merkel’s plans for a shift in power from EU members to Brussels would generate constitutional problems within Germany and worries among allies, writes Quentin Peel

Stephen Hester Feb 8, 2012

A pestered Hester

RBS chief is hitting back at political interference

Feb 7, 2012

Eurozone crisis: A deft way to buy time

ECB chief Mario Draghi has helped hold off a credit crunch but deep economic and political problems remain

A dogfight over Delhi Feb 6, 2012

A dogfight over Delhi

Harsh realities of India’s fighter decision

Revolving door Feb 5, 2012

US Treasury: Manhattan transfer

Rapid staff turnover is raising fears that the department is precariously short of seasoned professionals

pfeatures Office Buildings at Canary Wharf Andrew Hill Feb 3, 2012

Bonuses of contention

The corporate pay culture is the focus of unprecedented fire

Cars fill a parking lot at Peugeot Citroen's site in Aulnay-Sous-Bois outside Paris ©Getty Feb 2, 2012

Carmaking: in the slow lane

A sector long seen as an engine of European industry looks increasingly shaky

Defence minister Anatoly Serdyukov ©Getty Jan 31, 2012

Russia’s military: modern warfare the Moscow way

Kremlin plans to restore the army’s flagging power are meeting resistance at home

Jan 30, 2012

A new page opens for Facebook

Stock market launch is biggest test yet for the social network phenomenon

Jan 29, 2012

Hordes of hoarders

Companies’ growing cash piles are irking shareholders and stunting growth

Jan 27, 2012

Untied kingdom

Economics will determine the destiny of the British isles’ constituent nations

Jan 26, 2012

MF Global: Uncertain futures

The question is how can regulation now be tightened

Jan 25, 2012

Food security: Dampened prospects

As population growth outstrips agricultural gains, policymakers will have to juggle the conflicting need to provide food and jobs while curbing damage to the environment

Jan 24, 2012

Nigeria: Power outage

Since Goodluck Jonathan took office promising reforms, failure to stop an Islamist insurgency and protests are fuelling doubts

Jan 23, 2012

Storm warning in the strait

Fears that Tehran will act to provoke a conflict in wake of sanctions

Martin Wolf Jan 22, 2012

Seven ways to fix the system’s flaws

The shocks inflicted on the world by the upheavals of the past few years make a thoroughgoing overhaul urgent

Jan 20, 2012

A rather civil partnership

Can store provide macroeconomic model?

Jan 19, 2012

US finance: An enduring squall

Bank of America has to weigh the wishes of shareholders and regulators as it ponders bankruptcy protection for the Countrywide unit

Comment Awards


The Financial Times has won four categories in the 2011 Comment Awards including best comment pages, business commentator: John Gapper, cultural commentator: Simon Kuper and foreign commentator: David Pilling

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