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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2019
    Opinion2 min
    How Boris Johnson has unleashed Brexit's 'demons'

    FT's Martin Wolf says the prime minister has set parliament against the people

  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
    Brexit
    Brexit is a journey without end

    No majority exists for any deal option with the EU. Brexiters are as much to blame as Remainers

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2019
    ReviewPolitical books
    The Narrow Corridor — the fine line between despotism and anarchy

    Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson ask: how do we balance protections with liberty?

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2019
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Martin Wolf: why rigged capitalism is damaging democracy

    Economies are not delivering for most citizens because of weak competition, feeble productivity growth and tax loopholes

  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2019
    Globalisation
    The case for sane globalism remains strong

    Today’s most pressing policy challenges require multilateral co-operation

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2019
    Brexit
    Brexit means goodbye to Britain as we know it

    What is happening now is not worthy of a serious country

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    Global Economy3 min
    Martin Wolf: why Vladimir Putin is wrong to claim liberalism is dead

    Western liberal democracies are the most successful societies in history - but many are still a work in progress

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Bretton Woods at 75: global co-operation under threat

    Economic governance system established in 1944 is being undermined by protectionism and nationalism

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
    US economy
    Donald Trump’s boom will prove to be hot air

    His policy of regressive Keynesianism shows the Republicans have given up on fiscal responsibility

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    Martin Wolf accepts Gerald Loeb award

    ‘My views have changed as the world has changed — but my values have not altered’

  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
    Geopolitics
    Liberalism will endure but must be renewed

    It is a work in progress, not a utopian project

  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
    Russia
    Либерализм будет жить дальше, но нуждается в обновлении

    Это непрерывная работа, а не утопический проект

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    Special ReportG20: Japan and the World
    Superpower rifts heighten risks to global economy

    Growth downgrades appear modest but watch out for seven principal threats

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    ObituaryErnest Stern
    Ernest Stern, economist, 1933-2019

    A rare talent at the World Bank who never took stability for granted

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    Populism
    Why democratic government is showing strains

    Nostalgia, identity politics and declining influence of elites sped rise of populist entertainers

  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2019
    Facebook Inc
    Facebook enters dangerous waters with Libra 

    At worst, this might lead to a world dominated by a mono-bank

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
    The Week Ahead5 min
    G20 leaders meet, H&M Q2, Tories vote for PM

    Daniel Garrahan looks at some of the main stories the FT is watching this week

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2019
    Summer books of 2019: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2019
    Narendra Modi
    India after Modi’s electoral earthquake

    His first government did important things, but they were not transformative

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    Brexit
    No-deal Brexit would be lunacy wrapped in stupidity

    The cost to Britain’s economy and its standing in the world would be immense

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
    ObituaryMartin S. Feldstein
    Martin Feldstein, economist, 1939-2019

    FT’s Martin Wolf remembers a principled conservative with a devotion to the evidence

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2019
    European Central Bank
    Weidmann casts a shadow over the ECB

    If he simply validated the orthodox German view as president, it would be a disaster

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    US-China trade dispute
    The looming 100-year US-China conflict

    Donald Trump’s unnecessary fight for domination is increasingly being framed as a zero-sum game

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    The case for making wellbeing the goal of public policy

    Mental health is the most important determinant of life satisfaction

  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2019
    Global Economy
    States create useful money, but abuse it

    To the extent modern monetary theory is true, it is unoriginal; to the extent it is original, it is false

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