We need a path that avoids a brutal and damaging rupture with EU and its consequences

In this game of chicken, the EU may wrongly expect the UK to swerve on Irish backstop

Rivalry must be managed rationally to protect the world’s future

This Budget is the largest discretionary fiscal loosening since the OBR’s creation in 2010

We need to shift the world on to a different investment and growth path immediately

The chancellor faces some difficult choices as the deadline looms

The tussle between the US and China risks dragging down the world economy

Latest IMF data highlights the lasting damage done by the 2008 collapse

It is legitimate to believe the EU has over-reached, but not to despise its goals

It would not be hard for Beijing to offset a loss of demand in a trade war with the US

Elites must recognise that mismanaged economies have helped to destabilise politics

Martin Wolf on the power of vested interests in today’s rent-extracting economy

In the first piece of an FT series, Martin Wolf explains why the risks of a destructive slowdown are growing even within Beijing’s managed system

The US president is hostile to the core values the country used to stand for

While Jeremy Corbyn worries me, it is easy to see the case for radical reform

The question remains whether other countries should box back in retaliation 

The president has broken with seven decades of US foreign policy