Martin Wolf | Financial Times

Wednesday, 27 July, 2022

Saturday, 16 July, 2022

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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