Martin Wolf

Tuesday, 3 October, 2023

Sunday, 1 October, 2023

Global lessons from inflation’s rise above the UK target

Errors in hitting central bank goals are likely to be asymmetric with a drift upwards that leads to recession

Thursday, 28 September, 2023

Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled

Tuesday, 26 September, 2023

Chinese economy

How China can avoid the Japan trap

Income needs to accrue to those who will spend it — but this will require redistribution on a significant scale

Tuesday, 19 September, 2023

Chinese economy

We shouldn’t call ‘peak China’ just yet

Yes, there are deep structural problems in the economy, but this is also a country with significant strengths

Sunday, 17 September, 2023

UK tax

British politicians owe voters some candour on tax

The UK faces multiple challenges, while the public finances are far from robust

Tuesday, 12 September, 2023

Global Economy

We need the G20 — but what is it for?

Transforming the scale and nature of finance for development and the environment is essential

Tuesday, 25 July, 2023

Indian politics & policy

Modi’s India is moving in an illiberal direction

His government has taken huge risks in riding the tiger of politicised religion

Sunday, 23 July, 2023

UK politics

The government needs to be far bolder on pension reform

Jeremy Hunt recognises the failings of the current system but his ‘Mansion House compact’ fails to address them

Tuesday, 18 July, 2023

Indian economy

Western leaders are making a sensible bet on India

Its population and economy are both forecast to grow rapidly over coming decades, offering a counterweight to China

Tuesday, 11 July, 2023

Global Economy

The west must recognise its hypocrisy

Many countries view the US and European powers as selfish, self-satisfied and insincere

Sunday, 9 July, 2023

UK economy

Labour’s plan will not transform Britain’s poor economic prospects

The green energy blueprint is unlikely to be a Holy Grail that enables the UK to escape this long, painful period of stagnation

Tuesday, 4 July, 2023

Central banks

Inflation’s return changes the world

Is this an enduring shift in the monetary environment or a temporary one? At the moment, we do not know

Tuesday, 27 June, 2023

US foreign policy

America is feeling buyer’s remorse at the world it built

Jake Sullivan has called for a new ‘foreign policy for the middle class’. But what does that really mean?

Sunday, 25 June, 2023

UK inflation

The Bank of England must have the courage of its convictions

Britain’s economy will not get back to 2 per cent inflation without a sharp slowdown

Friday, 23 June, 2023

Summer Books 2023

Best summer books of 2023: from our own stable

Books by FT writers

Tuesday, 20 June, 2023

Climate change

The green transition won’t happen without financing for developing countries

Multilateral development banks and the IMF should offer to pool currency risks

Tuesday, 20 June, 2023

Summer Books 2023

Martin Wolf picks his best economics books of the year so far

Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

Tuesday, 13 June, 2023

Global economic growth

Developing countries have hit the financial rocks

The dire situation on debt has become pressing — urgent action is needed

Sunday, 11 June, 2023

Workplace pensions

Reforming the UK’s failing pensions system is a priority

The creation of a number of ‘superfunds’ would result in more rewarding management of assets

Saturday, 10 June, 2023

FT News Briefing podcast43 min listen

Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: resisting autocracy

The FT’s chief economics commentator speaks to journalist and historian Anne Applebaum

Tuesday, 6 June, 2023

Geopolitics

The myth of the ‘Asian century’

What is really happening is the rebalancing of the world as European and American hegemony dwindles away

Saturday, 3 June, 2023

FT News Briefing podcast43 min listen

Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism: the ‘democratic recession’

The FT’s chief economics commentator speaks to democracy expert Larry Diamond

Monday, 29 May, 2023

FT News Briefing podcast47 min listen

Martin Wolf on saving democratic capitalism

The FT’s chief economics commentator is worried

Sunday, 28 May, 2023

UK politics

Citizens’ juries can help fix democracy

Western polities are ailing — deliberative assemblies would revivify them

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