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    Martin Wolf

    Chief Economics Commentator

    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”.

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    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      A matter of interest — the battle over monetary policy

      Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke and historian Edward Chancellor offer conflicting perspectives on the crisis in central banking

    • Saturday, 16 July, 2022
      FT News Briefing podcast29 min listen
      FT Weekend: Martin Wolf on how to change one's mind

      Martin Wolf on forming a worldview and allowing your opinions to change over time. Then, Courtney Weaver on the gentle parenting movement

    • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
      Global inflation
      Inflation is a political challenge as well as an economic one

      People care about price rises and the damage that they can do to real incomes

    • Sunday, 10 July, 2022
      UK economic growth
      The UK economy is stagnant — and the reasons run deep

      Whoever succeeds Boris Johnson must be serious about tackling Britain’s profound productivity problem

    • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
      Cryptocurrencies
      Cryptocurrencies are not the new monetary system we need

      They proliferate uncontrollably and are objects of speculation rather than stores of value

    • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
      Global trade
      In an era of disorder, open trade is at risk

      Action is needed to shore up the global commons — and less powerful countries must take the initiative

    • Sunday, 26 June, 2022
      UK inflation
      Grim times lie ahead for UK as inflation combines with low growth

      Modest interest rate rises by the Bank of England would simply reflect the severity of the economic slowdown

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      Globalisation
      The big mistakes of the anti-globalisers

      From treating trade as optional to overstating the merits of self-sufficiency, these are errors to avoid as we head into a new world

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Economics

      Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      Global economic growth
      Policy errors of the 1970s echo in our times

      Vast debts make the world economy more fragile than it was over 40 years ago

    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
      Global Economy
      Twelve propositions on the state of the world

      Global leaders face formidable challenges, from dizzying technological progress and geopolitical tension to climate change

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Global 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

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