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  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    FT CollectionsGlobal Economy
    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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