Martin Wolf | Financial Times

Thursday, 26 May, 2022

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

Thursday, 5 May, 2022

ReviewNon-Fiction

A call to arms for diverse democracies and their ‘decent middle’

Yascha Mounk’s ‘The Great Experiment’ looks at how faltering heterogeneous societies can thrive

Tuesday, 3 May, 2022

War in Ukraine

Russia’s war tests Europe’s moral mettle as much as its economy

Governments need to cushion the impact on the cost of living but energy subsidies are not the answer

Tuesday, 26 April, 2022

Global economic growth

War in Ukraine is causing a many-sided economic shock

The conflict is a multiplier of disruption in an already disrupted world

Monday, 11 April, 2022

ReviewEconomics books

The best new books on economics

Martin Wolf rounds up essential reads on war, peace and the problems with free markets

Thursday, 7 April, 2022

ReviewPolitical books

America and China — the defining relationship

Competitive co-operation or containment? Two books set out opposing views on how the US should approach its superpower rival

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022

Oil & Gas industry

It is time to curb imports of Russia’s gas

Adding it to the list of embargoed products would make life as difficult as possible for Vladimir Putin

Sunday, 3 April, 2022

UK economic growth

The future of the UK economy is uncertain

But Rishi Sunak’s fiscal illusions are not the right response to a series of external shocks

Wednesday, 30 March, 2022

FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen

The global impact of Putin’s war

Russia has decided to ‘dramatically’ scale back its military activities in the Kyiv area

Tuesday, 29 March, 2022

Foreign exchange

A new world of currency disorder looms

The Chinese renminbi can be a challenger to the US dollar, but it won’t replace it

Thursday, 24 March, 2022

War in Ukraine

Columnists Exchange: should Nato become engaged in the war in Ukraine?

Two members of the FT’s editorial board discuss the pros and cons of western intervention

Wednesday, 23 March, 2022

Spring Statement

Sunak fails to address the hit to living standards

It is hard to see a good justification for the chancellor’s decision to leave the most vulnerable worse off

Tuesday, 22 March, 2022

Global Economy

Putin’s war demands a concerted global economic response

Countries will have to use their fiscal resources to look after refugees and offset the impact of rising food prices on the poorest

Sunday, 20 March, 2022

UK economic growth

Rishi Sunak has short-term challenges, but he should also look further ahead

The chancellor must not ignore opportunities for lasting reform

Tuesday, 15 March, 2022

Geopolitics

Russia’s war will remake the world

The combination of conflict, supply shocks and high inflation is inevitably destabilising

Tuesday, 8 March, 2022

War in Ukraine

There are no good choices for the west on Ukraine

It should strengthen sanctions, though they may ruin Russia’s economy without changing its policy or regime

Sunday, 6 March, 2022

UK business & economy

Rishi Sunak owes Britain more than warmed-over Thatcherism

The UK chancellor has failed to answer important questions about stagnant productivity and living standards

Tuesday, 1 March, 2022

War in Ukraine

Putin has reignited the conflict between tyranny and liberal democracy

A war of choice on the children of a peaceful democracy is not an action we can allow ourselves to forget

Tuesday, 22 February, 2022

Central banks

As inflation rises, the monetarist dog is having its day

Economists are being forced to relearn lessons about the importance of the money supply

Sunday, 20 February, 2022

Brexit

Fishing for Brexit opportunities will end with an unsatisfactory haul

The promised regulatory divergence from the EU is far from an easy win

Tuesday, 15 February, 2022

Coronavirus economic impact

The looming threat of long financial Covid

Necessary debt restructurings will be prolonged and messy while people and economies suffer

Tuesday, 8 February, 2022

UK economic growth

Economic sorrows come in battalions

High inflation, rising energy cost and a weakening economy are now with us, and the impending tax rise will make it worse

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