Feb 21, 2012

Prepare for a golden age of gas

Shale gas underlines the ingenuity of those engaged in finding new sources of energy

Feb 16, 2012

Britain needs to whittle down corporate cash piles

The fiscal position can’t be viewed separately from the rest of the economy

Feb 14, 2012

Much too much ado about Greece

The epic from Athens indicates the eurozone’s structural fragility, writes Martin Wolf

Feb 7, 2012

Crisis must not change India’s course

Eurozone and oil-price threats should not be exaggerated

Feb 2, 2012

End this masochism in economic policy

There is a solution for the stagnating UK

Ingram Pinn illustration Jan 31, 2012

Europe is stuck on life support

The ECB has staved off a eurozone heart attack but its members face a long convalescence

Public Goods Jan 24, 2012

The world’s hunger for public goods

It is unclear whether today’s states can – or will be allowed to – provide what we now demand

From SPECIAL REPORTS Jan 24, 2012

Yet another year of living dangerously

What can we see in the world economy in 2012? Risks galore

Capitalism in crisis From ANALYSIS 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 19, 2012

Scotland needs to judge the costs of independence

Breaking free would deprive Scots of benefits

Jan 19, 2012

Why the super-Marios need help

The costs of failure are so large that the possibility of domestic and eurozone reform must be kept alive

Jan 10, 2012

Hopes in emerging countries

Convergence in incomes per head is driving extraordinary divergence in growth between incumbents and newcomers

Jan 3, 2012

The 2012 recovery: handle with care

Can healthy outcomes be expected from battered high-income countries?

Dec 22, 2011

America’s inequality need not determine the future of Britain

Policies and social preferences make a very big difference

Dec 21, 2011

Sinking into the ‘great stagnation’

The bad news is that the era of cheap resources is not just vanishing. What was once treated as free is costly

Dec 13, 2011

A disastrous failure at the summit

The eurozone’s leaders have not devised a credible remedy to the crisis

From SPECIAL REPORTS Dec 12, 2011

Bob Diamond in an unconvincing defence

Talk is cheap. Action is expensive. But the Barclays chief executive’s inaugural Today Business Lecture was clever talk

From SPECIAL REPORTS Dec 12, 2011

Germany has to make a fateful choice

My fears are coming true – this crisis has done more than demonstrate that the initial design of the eurozone was defective

Dec 8, 2011

Mind the gap: the perils of forecasting output

The OBR is honest and competent but might still be wrong

Dec 6, 2011

Merkozy failed to save the eurozone

Like the Bourbons, leaders seem to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing

About Martin

Martin Wolf Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. Mr Wolf is an associate member of the governing body of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and a special professor at the University of Nottingham.

He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999 and a member of its International Media Council since 2006. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. Martin's most recent publications are Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance.

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