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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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  • Thursday, 11 July, 2019
    Brexit
    Brexit means goodbye to Britain as we know it

    What is happening now is not worthy of a serious country

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    Global Economy3 min
    Martin Wolf: why Vladimir Putin is wrong to claim liberalism is dead

    Western liberal democracies are the most successful societies in history - but many are still a work in progress

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    AnalysisThe Big Read
    Martin Wolf on Bretton Woods at 75: global co-operation under threat

    Economic governance system established in 1944 is being undermined by protectionism and nationalism

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
    US economy
    Donald Trump’s boom will prove to be hot air

    His policy of regressive Keynesianism shows the Republicans have given up on fiscal responsibility

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    Martin Wolf accepts Gerald Loeb award

    ‘My views have changed as the world has changed — but my values have not altered’

  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
    Geopolitics
    Liberalism will endure but must be renewed

    It is a work in progress, not a utopian project

  • Tuesday, 2 July, 2019
    Russia
    Либерализм будет жить дальше, но нуждается в обновлении

    Это непрерывная работа, а не утопический проект

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    Special ReportG20: Japan and the World
    Superpower rifts heighten risks to global economy

    Growth downgrades appear modest but watch out for seven principal threats

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    ObituaryErnest Stern
    Ernest Stern, economist, 1933-2019

    A rare talent at the World Bank who never took stability for granted

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  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    Populism
    Why democratic government is showing strains

    Nostalgia, identity politics and declining influence of elites sped rise of populist entertainers

  • Tuesday, 25 June, 2019
    Facebook Inc
    Facebook enters dangerous waters with Libra 

    At worst, this might lead to a world dominated by a mono-bank

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
    The Week Ahead5 min
    G20 leaders meet, H&M Q2, Tories vote for PM

    Daniel Garrahan looks at some of the main stories the FT is watching this week

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2019
    Summer books of 2019: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2019
    Narendra Modi
    India after Modi’s electoral earthquake

    His first government did important things, but they were not transformative

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    Brexit
    No-deal Brexit would be lunacy wrapped in stupidity

    The cost to Britain’s economy and its standing in the world would be immense

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
    ObituaryMartin S. Feldstein
    Martin Feldstein, economist, 1939-2019

    FT’s Martin Wolf remembers a principled conservative with a devotion to the evidence

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2019
    European Central Bank
    Weidmann casts a shadow over the ECB

    If he simply validated the orthodox German view as president, it would be a disaster

  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2019
    US-China trade dispute
    The looming 100-year US-China conflict

    Donald Trump’s unnecessary fight for domination is increasingly being framed as a zero-sum game

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
    UK politics & policy
    The case for making wellbeing the goal of public policy

    Mental health is the most important determinant of life satisfaction

  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2019
    Global Economy
    States create useful money, but abuse it

    To the extent modern monetary theory is true, it is unoriginal; to the extent it is original, it is false

  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2019
    US-China trade dispute
    The US-China conflict challenges the world

    Smaller countries should band together to sustain multilateral free trade

  • Monday, 20 May, 2019
    Special ReportInvesting in Greece
    Greece shows promising signs of growth

    Prospects for the country’s further economic recovery in the light of the reforms and policies in place

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
    Brexit
    ‘Global Britain’ is an illusion as distance has not died

    Trade often occurs within supply chains, where reliability and control is vital

  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2019
    Global Economy
    How the long debt cycle might end

    Some fear the fire of inflation; others the ice of deflation

  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2019
    Global economic growth
    How our low inflation world was made

    The picture is one of weak growth and pervasive populist politics

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