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Martin Sandbu

European Economics Commentator

Martin Sandbu is the Financial Times's European economics commentator. He also writes Free Lunch, the FT's weekly newsletter on the global economic policy debate. He has been writing for the FT since 2009, when he joined the paper as economics leader writer.

Before joining the FT, he worked in academia and policy consulting. He is the author of three books, on business ethics, the euro, and on the economics of belonging.

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  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    Free LunchEuropean manufacturing
    What energy crisis? European industry is showing its adaptability Premium content

    Manufacturing output remains strong across most of the EU

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Free LunchTax
    The wealthy who like the idea of a wealth tax Premium content

    The moneyed classes are beginning to think governments have been too kind to them

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Economists Exchange
    Brad DeLong: ‘The US is now an anti-globalisation outlier’

    America is no longer seen as the furnace in which the future is being forged

  • Sunday, 20 November, 2022
    Brexit
    Jeremy Hunt’s fiscal rules mimic the EU’s — just as it departs from them

    Brussels is overhauling the policy constraints it imposes while the UK chancellor is setting new ones of his own

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    Free LunchUS midterm elections
    It’s the economy, stupid (but not as we thought) Premium content

    Their surprisingly good midterms should make US Democrats appreciate Bidenomics

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Free LunchEU budget rules
    The EU begins to grasp its fiscal nettle Premium content

    New proposal accepts that budget rules must complement politics, not substitute for it

  • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
    EU trade
    Europe is learning that you can’t separate trade and politics

    Pursuing a narrowly commercial agenda undermines larger strategic objectives

  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Free LunchGlobal inflation
    ‘Obvious truths’ about inflation that are nothing of the sort Premium content

    It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so

  • Sunday, 30 October, 2022
    Northern Ireland
    N Ireland’s power-sharing system is ‘not fit for purpose’, says Irish PM

    Micheál Martin calls for reform of governance arrangements enshrined in Good Friday accord

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    Free LunchUK public finances
    How to make the UK’s budget maths add up Premium content

    Spending cuts are far from the only option

  • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
    Central banks
    A political backlash against monetary policy is looming

    Defenders of independent central banks must think about their democratic legitimacy

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
    Free LunchEnergy crisis
    How (not) to intervene in energy prices Premium content

    There are ways to prevent hardship that are both cost-efficient and keep the incentive to save energy

  • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
    Free LunchGlobal economic growth
    The post-pandemic recovery has been officially cancelled Premium content

    Taking on some lazy arguments for monetary tightening

  • Monday, 10 October, 2022
    Instant InsightNobel prizes
    A Nobel for an economic model with real world application

    Bernanke, Diamond and Dybvig have taught lessons about bank runs that have been absorbed since the financial crisis

  • Sunday, 9 October, 2022
    Central banks
    Central banks are risking the best jobs market in a generation

    They are about to address a cost of living shock by willingly inflicting a hit to growth

  • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
    Free LunchInternational Monetary Fund
    The economic policy paradigm shift continues apace Premium content

    IMF-World Bank meeting shows the previous hands-off consensus is still being left in the dust

  • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
    Free LunchUK financial crisis
    What we can learn from the past week’s market ructions Premium content

    The UK market panic reveals more about challenges to monetary than fiscal policy

  • Sunday, 25 September, 2022
    EU economy
    Urgent rewriting of EU fiscal rule book will depend on trust

    When governments start planning their 2024 budgets, they will need to know what to go back to

  • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
    Free LunchGlobal inflation
    How I learnt to stop worrying about public debt and inflation Premium content

    Some economic arguments for benign neglect

  • Thursday, 15 September, 2022
    Free LunchWar in Ukraine
    Economics lessons from the Ukraine war: expectations matter Premium content

    Kyiv’s counter-offensive, inflation and the Wizard of Oz

  • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
    EU energy
    Vladimir Putin has forced the EU into a long-overdue energy union

    The desire for national control has delayed the removal of physical bottlenecks in European energy flows

  • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
    Free LunchTax
    Governments cannot afford to ignore a wealth tax Premium content

    While budgets are set to bleed from the energy crisis, the taxation of wealth has not kept up with its growth

  • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
    Global Economy20 min
    'Why we need a wealth tax'

    A well-designed net wealth tax can raise revenue and tackle inequality, argues the FT's Martin Sandbu

  • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
    Free LunchEnergy crisis
    The energy crisis and the massive international wealth transfer Premium content

    The distributional consequences of high prices are enormous between countries as well as within them

  • Sunday, 28 August, 2022
    EU economy
    Europe’s leaders must avoid divisions that would only benefit Putin

    Putting national interests ahead of the EU as a whole would be the wrong step as winter crises loom

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