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    Martin Sandbu

    European Economics Commentator

    Martin Sandbu is the Financial Times's European economics commentator. He also writes Free Lunch, the FT's weekly newsletter on the global economic policy debate. He has been writing for the FT since 2009, when he joined the paper as economics leader writer.

    Before joining the FT, he worked in academia and policy consulting. He is the author of three books, on business ethics, the euro, and on the economics of belonging.

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    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Free LunchGlobal economic growth
      The bad news in the good economic news Premium content

      Evidence is accumulating that tightening is not a good idea, but the IMF is not for turning

    • Sunday, 29 January, 2023
      EU economy
      The EU should welcome a green subsidy race

      Europe must not let itself be spooked by the US commitment to bankroll the climate transition

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Free LunchNorway
      Norway’s exodus of billionaires Premium content

      Making sense of the world’s least important migration crisis

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Free LunchMacroeconomics
      Bank of Japan 2 — Markets 1 Premium content

      Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and his colleagues are right to keep yield curve control in place

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Sweden
      Sweden is navigating an international identity crisis

      War in Ukraine and economic activism in Europe are causing Stockholm to nuance traditional stances

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Free LunchEuro
      Reasons for confidence in the euro Premium content

      More nuanced thinking on both the currency and its inflation prospects

    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      Euro
      Monetary independence is overrated, and the euro is riding high

      Old misgivings about the currency are increasingly unpersuasive — it is becoming more attractive by the day

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Free LunchMacroeconomics
      When wage inflation is good for you Premium content

      And some New Year readings on the biggest economics themes affecting us

    • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
      Central banks
      Central banks should beware mistaking wage rises for an inflation problem

      Profound changes in labour markets since the pandemic may mean that many workers and companies are more productive

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Free LunchWar in Ukraine
      The west must massively upgrade its financial commitments to Ukraine Premium content

      The country’s friends are inching towards accepting the magnitude of the challenge — but too slowly

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Free LunchEuropean manufacturing
      Where next for Europe’s industry? Premium content

      More evidence that factories have weathered the energy crisis well

    • Sunday, 4 December, 2022
      EU energy
      Europe should not protest too much on energy

      Policymakers should accelerate reduced carbon usage and build up high-tech, knowledge-intensive industries

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Free LunchEuropean manufacturing
      What energy crisis? European industry is showing its adaptability

      Manufacturing output remains strong across most of the EU

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Free LunchTax
      The wealthy who like the idea of a wealth tax Premium content

      The moneyed classes are beginning to think governments have been too kind to them

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Economists Exchange
      Brad DeLong: ‘The US is now an anti-globalisation outlier’

      America is no longer seen as the furnace in which the future is being forged

    • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
      Brexit
      Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal rules mimic the EU’s — just as it departs from them

      Brussels is overhauling the policy constraints it imposes while the UK chancellor is setting new ones of his own

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      Free LunchUS midterm elections
      It’s the economy, stupid (but not as we thought) Premium content

      Their surprisingly good midterms should make US Democrats appreciate Bidenomics

    • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
      Free LunchEU budget rules
      The EU begins to grasp its fiscal nettle Premium content

      New proposal accepts that budget rules must complement politics, not substitute for it

    • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
      EU trade
      Europe is learning that you can’t separate trade and politics

      Pursuing a narrowly commercial agenda undermines larger strategic objectives

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Free LunchGlobal inflation
      ‘Obvious truths’ about inflation that are nothing of the sort Premium content

      It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so

    • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
      Northern Ireland
      N Ireland’s power-sharing system is ‘not fit for purpose’, says Irish PM

      Micheál Martin calls for reform of governance arrangements enshrined in Good Friday accord

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Free LunchUK public finances
      How to make the UK’s budget maths add up Premium content

      Spending cuts are far from the only option

    • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
      Central banks
      A political backlash against monetary policy is looming

      Defenders of independent central banks must think about their democratic legitimacy

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Free LunchEnergy crisis
      How (not) to intervene in energy prices Premium content

      There are ways to prevent hardship that are both cost-efficient and keep the incentive to save energy

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Free LunchGlobal economic growth
      The post-pandemic recovery has been officially cancelled Premium content

      Taking on some lazy arguments for monetary tightening

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