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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Monday, 18 October, 2021
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Without an economic plan, patriotism is Johnson’s last refuge

    The longstanding dream of a high wage, high productivity economy requires coherent policy

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    Global economic growth
    Hopes and fears for the global Covid-19 recovery

    As economies exit the pandemic, the job of central banks is relatively simple — less generous, better targeted assistance

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    Chinese economy
    The economic threats from China’s real estate bubble

    Property’s great investment boom has reached its limit — the economy needs new drivers of demand

  • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
    UK public finances
    It is time to lop off the dead hand of the Treasury

    Politicians should consider radical alternatives to managing an unpleasant normality

  • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
    US politics & policy
    The strange death of American democracy

    A constitutional crisis looms as Trump tightens his grip on the Republicans ahead of 2024

  • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
    Central banks
    Inequality is behind central bank dilemma

    Stagflation would create devastating problems for weaker borrowers, notably heavily indebted emerging economies.

  • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
    Personal pensions
    Why collective risk-sharing should be a central element in pensions

    Large, diversified CDC funds will allow generations to protect each other

  • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    The time to embrace central bank digital currencies is now

    Money must adapt to an era of new technology— but it has to work for society as a whole

  • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
    Economy
    Political Economy Club essay prize

    Martin Wolf introduces the winners of the competition celebrating the club’s 200th anniversary

  • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
    Global Economy
    Martin Wolf introduces the Political Economy Club essay prize-winners

    On its 200th anniversary, the club asked how the ideas of Malthus and Ricardo apply to climate change and income today

  • Tuesday, 13 July, 2021
    G20
    The G20 has failed to meet its challenges

    Lack of a truly global response to the pandemic augurs badly for common action on climate change

  • Sunday, 11 July, 2021
    Pensions
    Equities are the only sensible foundation for private pensions

    Their massive long-term outperformance occurred despite world wars, the Depression and the global financial crisis

  • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
    Brexit
    Boris Johnson’s Brexit win was a Pyrrhic victory

    The realities of relative power mean the UK and EU are — and will remain — far from equals

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