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Sunday, 16 May, 2021

Tuesday, 11 May, 2021

US politics & policy

The struggle for the survival of US democracy

As Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican party tightens, Joe Biden is playing for huge stakes — and he knows it

Tuesday, 4 May, 2021

Climate change

Action must replace talk on climate change

If the COP26 summit is to be the decisive moment it should be, three things must be done

Sunday, 2 May, 2021

Climate change

The UK must try harder if it is to lead the world on climate

Government should get to work on a credible plan for taxing emissions

Tuesday, 27 April, 2021

US economy

China is wrong to think the US faces inevitable decline

Its economic assets are too great and, while America could falter, that would be its choice and not its fate

Tuesday, 20 April, 2021

Coronavirus economic impact

Economic recovery masks the dangers of a divided world

Nothing would be more foolish than policymakers in rich countries turning away from global challenges

Monday, 12 April, 2021

FT CollectionsEconomists Exchange

Larry Summers: ‘I’m concerned that what is being done is substantially excessive’

Former treasury secretary criticises the scale of Biden’s fiscal policy and warns it could lead to overheating and wasted resources

Friday, 9 April, 2021

ObituaryRobert Mundell

Robert Mundell, economist, 1932-2021

Canadian Nobel Prize winner who became the father of international macroeconomics

Friday, 26 March, 2021

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Anne Case: ‘The labour force has lost its voice’

Three economists give their take on the post-Covid economy

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Friday, 26 March, 2021

Personal Finance

The return of the inflation spectre

Growing worries about the return of a long-forgotten bugbear highlight increasing risks for savers

Tuesday, 23 March, 2021

Coronavirus economic impact

Hopes and fears of the global recovery

The good news is growth is accelerating; the bad news is major economic, health and social risks remain

Sunday, 21 March, 2021

UK property

British housing is expensive and its supply must increase

Relative prices are higher than at any time since the 1880s, except for the year before the financial crisis

Tuesday, 16 March, 2021

Global Economy

Economies can survive a stock market crash

If a correction is due to higher rates and stronger growth, it would not matter much — except to investors

Thursday, 11 March, 2021

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Martin Wolf looks back at the pandemic one year later

FT chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, assesses how governments performed during the pandemic

Tuesday, 9 March, 2021

Climate change

Humanity is a cuckoo in the planetary nest

It has fallen to our generation to take responsibility for the planet and here is how to do it

Saturday, 6 March, 2021

UK Budget

Rishi Sunak takes an axe to Thatcher’s low-tax ideology

Planned increases are a move away from Conservative orthodoxy but may deter business investment

Wednesday, 3 March, 2021

UK Budget

The UK’s ‘new Tory’ economics are different but insufficient

Rishi Sunak’s Budget reverses some Conservative principles but fails on the vision post-pandemic Britain needs

Tuesday, 2 March, 2021

Central bank intervention

What central banks ought to target

Amid a wide range of options, inflation targeting remains the simplest and least bad

Tuesday, 23 February, 2021

US budget

Joe Biden’s $1.9tn package is a risky experiment

It might be no bad thing if the US fiscal stimulus ended up somewhat smaller than now proposed

Sunday, 21 February, 2021

UK labour productivity

Why once successful countries like the UK get left behind

As a nation loses its ability to innovate, it starts to stagnate

Tuesday, 16 February, 2021

Covid-19 vaccines

Vaccinating the world is a test of our ability to co-operate

It is also a trial of our enlightened self-interest and will need G20 leadership to succeed

Tuesday, 9 February, 2021

Coronavirus treatment

We must vaccinate the world — now

The cost of jabs for all would be a rounding error; it is also the only way to end the pandemic for good

Sunday, 7 February, 2021

UK tax

Now is the time to reform the UK’s dysfunctional tax system

Rishi Sunak needs to spell out in his Budget that he understands why this needs to happen, and how

Tuesday, 2 February, 2021

Global Economy

Containing China is not a feasible option

Unlike with the Soviet Union, the US and its allies have to co-operate and compete with its rising power

Tuesday, 26 January, 2021

US politics & policy

Competence is Joe Biden’s best strategy

Democrats have to prove that government can work — and Republicans are determined to prove the opposite

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