Martin Wolf | Financial Times

Tuesday, 1 March, 2022

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

Sunday, 6 February, 2022

UK politics & policy

The levelling-up white paper is a necessary call to arms

Reversing decades of regional disparity in the UK will require real devolution of power

Tuesday, 1 February, 2022

US Inflation

The Fed is too late to remove the punchbowl

Policy is still aggressively loose, even though the recovery and surge in inflation have long been clear

Tuesday, 25 January, 2022

Global economic recovery

The winding road to global recovery is through a thicket of risks

These hurdles, namely Omicron, supply shortages and unexpectedly high inflation, are all on the downside

Sunday, 23 January, 2022

BBC

Our age of diverse media has made the BBC yet more important

Ministers threatening the UK’s public service broadcaster would destabilise a foundation of healthy democracy

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Wednesday, 19 January, 2022

Special ReportThe World 2022

Profound risks lurk despite strength of economic rebound

Geopolitics is pulling the world apart, even though it is more integrated than ever before on multiple dimensions

Tuesday, 18 January, 2022

Capitalism

Business leaders have to play a better political role

Like it or not, they are potent players in our fragile democratic politics and in global decision-making

Monday, 10 January, 2022

FT Globetrotter

Many happy returns: the city spaces that bring joy to our correspondents and writers

Be it New York subway trains, a Frankfurt bakery or a Tokyo karaoke joint, these are the spots that never fail to uplift the FT’s globetrotters

Friday, 7 January, 2022

FT Magazine

Six FT writers on the best party they ever attended

Nights to remember from a 16th-birthday bash hosted by a hip-hop star to a fancy-dress rave in Mumbai

Tuesday, 30 November, 2021

Basque Country

Lessons in ‘levelling up’ from the Basque country

When it comes to regeneration, the success of this old industrial region is worth examining

Monday, 29 November, 2021

Healthcare costs

We must accept higher taxes to fund health and social care

The government’s response to immediate pressures on the system is inadequate and indefensible

Tuesday, 23 November, 2021

Climate change

Dancing on the edge of climate disaster

Despite signs of hope, scepticism is fully justified when it comes to the COP26 announcements

Wednesday, 17 November, 2021

FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021

Best books of 2021: Economics

Martin Wolf selects his must-read titles for the second half of 2021

Tuesday, 16 November, 2021

US Inflation

Fed policy must adjust for inflation

Even if the price rises we are seeing could be transitory, they risk becoming permanent

Sunday, 14 November, 2021

Universities Superannuation Scheme

UK university pensions suffer from misplaced prudence

It is a fallacy to suppose that a fund could be insured against the direst outcomes

Tuesday, 9 November, 2021

Brexit

Britain’s game of Brexit chicken will end badly

In threatening to repudiate its deal with the EU, the UK is undermining its credibility as a reliable partner

Tuesday, 2 November, 2021

Geopolitics

How we can share our divided world

Co-operation is essential if nations are to provide the necessary global public goods for humanity

Sunday, 31 October, 2021

UK Budget

The chancellor has no clear plan for faster, greener economic growth

What was most striking in Sunak’s speech was the absence of an integrated response to the UK’s many challenges

Wednesday, 27 October, 2021

UK Budget

Reality bites as Tories embrace big-state, fiscal conservatism

The government has bowed to pressures for higher taxes, predominantly to protect the old

Tuesday, 26 October, 2021

COP26

What is the least we need from COP26?

If global carbon emissions are to fall quickly, negotiators must bear the following in mind

Tuesday, 19 October, 2021

COP26

COP26 is the real thing and not a drill

The path to a new energy economy is clear, but it is technically and politically difficult

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