Martin Wolf | Financial Times

Tuesday, 29 November, 2022

Sunday, 27 November, 2022

The UK government should stop doing stupid stuff

It should not consider regulatory changes unless they will clearly be for the better

Thursday, 24 November, 2022

The geopolitical threat to globalisation

The FT’s chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, discusses why geopolitics could be the biggest threat to globalisation

Wednesday, 23 November, 2022

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022

Best books of 2022: Economics

Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles of the past six months

Tuesday, 22 November, 2022

Renewable energy

The market can deliver the green transition — just not fast enough

Policymakers and governments need to work out how to accelerate the process

Thursday, 17 November, 2022

Autumn Statement

Jeremy Hunt offers no jam today and none tomorrow

There is nothing in the chancellor’s Autumn Statement to suggest radical new thinking on growth

Tuesday, 15 November, 2022

Central banks

Central banks are right to act decisively

The worst possibility would not be for disinflation to be done too slowly but for policymakers to give up too quickly

Sunday, 13 November, 2022

Conservative Party UK

The Tories need to abandon their shibboleths

The state is likely to grow faster than the economy and so must the tax burden

Tuesday, 8 November, 2022

COP27

Delay only makes climate action more urgent

A huge acceleration in investment is necessary to help emerging and developing countries

Tuesday, 1 November, 2022

Globalisation

Geopolitics is the biggest threat to globalisation

The consequences of a great power rupture may be even worse now than during the cold war

Tuesday, 18 October, 2022

Eurozone economy

The eurozone economies have no choice but to tackle the supply shock together

A common energy policy is essential if citizens are to be protected against the worst of the crisis

Sunday, 16 October, 2022

UK economic growth

Restoring Britain’s credibility will be hard for Hunt

The new chancellor must recognise that a fresh round of austerity is undesirable

Tuesday, 11 October, 2022

Global Economy

Disease and war are shaping our economy

As the new IMF report focuses on continuing downside risks, what can and should be done?

Thursday, 6 October, 2022

Economists Exchange

Larry Summers: ‘The destabilisation wrought by British errors will not be confined to Britain’

The former US Treasury secretary delivers his verdict on a fiscal statement that sent markets spinning

Tuesday, 4 October, 2022

Xi Jinping

Xi Jinping’s third term is a tragic error

China’s macroeconomic, microeconomic and environmental difficulties remain largely unaddressed

Sunday, 2 October, 2022

Liz Truss

Truss’s growth plan is nothing but a magic potion

Hoping that reality will adapt to your desires is folly: Britain needs stable and credible policies, not zealotry

Tuesday, 27 September, 2022

US Dollar

Why the strength of the dollar matters

The financial tide is going out as a rising US currency has recessionary effects elsewhere

Friday, 23 September, 2022

UK economic growth

Kwarteng is risking serious economic instability

The chancellor’s largesse raises large questions about debt sustainability

Tuesday, 20 September, 2022

UK economic growth

The economic consequences of Liz Truss

It is surely a fantasy that further tax cuts and deregulation will transform performance

Sunday, 18 September, 2022

Energy crisis

Britain’s energy package puts its economic credibility at risk

The new chancellor’s plan is poorly targeted, too generous and overly dependent on public borrowing

Tuesday, 13 September, 2022

Globalisation

Globalisation is not dying, it’s changing

Trade in goods may be slowing, but the potential for technology-enabled trade in services remains huge

Tuesday, 6 September, 2022

EU energy

Europe can — and must — win the energy war

Victory will be costly, but the EU has to free itself from Russia’s chokehold

Sunday, 4 September, 2022

Energy sector

The UK energy crisis is a burden of war

Assistance must be bold and target the vulnerable first

Friday, 2 September, 2022

FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign

Have lunch with FT’s Martin Wolf or Claer Barrett

Bid for your chance to meet FT columnists in the Flic charity auction

Tuesday, 30 August, 2022

Central banks

Tough economic times lie ahead

Central banks are playing catch-up but they cannot tackle the energy shock directly

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